diff --git a/tracer/src/Datadog.Trace/ClrProfiler/AutoInstrumentation/AWS/SQS/ContextPropagation.cs b/tracer/src/Datadog.Trace/ClrProfiler/AutoInstrumentation/AWS/SQS/ContextPropagation.cs
index e0b9dd91b66b..905dda49af52 100644
--- a/tracer/src/Datadog.Trace/ClrProfiler/AutoInstrumentation/AWS/SQS/ContextPropagation.cs
+++ b/tracer/src/Datadog.Trace/ClrProfiler/AutoInstrumentation/AWS/SQS/ContextPropagation.cs
@@ -37,8 +37,7 @@ private static void Inject<TMessageRequest>(SpanContext context, IDictionary mes
 
                 if (Tracer.Instance.Settings.IsDataStreamsLegacyHeadersEnabled)
                 {
-                    var binaryContext = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(encodedBytes);
-                    sb.AppendFormat("\"{0}\":\"{1}\",", DataStreamsPropagationHeaders.PropagationKey, binaryContext);
+                    sb.AppendFormat("\"{0}\":\"{1}\",", DataStreamsPropagationHeaders.PropagationKey, base64EncodedContext);
                 }
             }