diff --git a/aws-opentelemetry-distro/src/amazon/opentelemetry/distro/patches/_instrumentation_patch.py b/aws-opentelemetry-distro/src/amazon/opentelemetry/distro/patches/_instrumentation_patch.py
index 161850e4c..02d6839ce 100644
--- a/aws-opentelemetry-distro/src/amazon/opentelemetry/distro/patches/_instrumentation_patch.py
+++ b/aws-opentelemetry-distro/src/amazon/opentelemetry/distro/patches/_instrumentation_patch.py
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ def apply_instrumentation_patches() -> None:
                 from gevent import monkey
 
                 monkey.patch_all()
-            elif gevent_patch_module != "none":
+            elif gevent_patch_module == "none":
+                pass
+            else:
                 module_list = [module.strip() for module in gevent_patch_module.split(",")]
 
                 # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
diff --git a/aws-opentelemetry-distro/tests/amazon/opentelemetry/distro/test_instrumentation_patch.py b/aws-opentelemetry-distro/tests/amazon/opentelemetry/distro/test_instrumentation_patch.py
index dbb93d39d..d12040041 100644
--- a/aws-opentelemetry-distro/tests/amazon/opentelemetry/distro/test_instrumentation_patch.py
+++ b/aws-opentelemetry-distro/tests/amazon/opentelemetry/distro/test_instrumentation_patch.py
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ def test_instrumentation_patch(self):
     def _run_patch_behaviour_tests(self):
         # Test setup
         self.method_patches[GET_DISTRIBUTION_PATCH].return_value = "CorrectDistributionObject"
-        # Test setup to check whether only these two modules get patched by gevent monkey
-        os.environ[AWS_GEVENT_PATCH_MODULES] = "os, ssl"
+        # Test setup to not patch gevent
+        os.environ[AWS_GEVENT_PATCH_MODULES] = "none"
 
         # Validate unpatched upstream behaviour - important to detect upstream changes that may break instrumentation
         self._test_unpatched_botocore_instrumentation()
@@ -71,6 +71,15 @@ def _run_patch_behaviour_tests(self):
 
         # Validate patched upstream behaviour - important to detect downstream changes that may break instrumentation
         self._test_patched_botocore_instrumentation()
+        self._test_unpatched_gevent_instrumentation()
+
+        # Test setup to check whether only these two modules get patched by gevent monkey
+        os.environ[AWS_GEVENT_PATCH_MODULES] = "os, ssl"
+
+        # Apply patches
+        apply_instrumentation_patches()
+
+        # Validate that os and ssl gevent monkey patch modules were patched
         self._test_patched_gevent_os_ssl_instrumentation()
 
         # Set the value to 'all' so that all the remaining gevent monkey patch modules are patched