diff --git a/apis/sqs/v1beta1/queue_types.go b/apis/sqs/v1beta1/queue_types.go
index adb5d18883..2e7d284008 100644
--- a/apis/sqs/v1beta1/queue_types.go
+++ b/apis/sqs/v1beta1/queue_types.go
@@ -176,8 +176,8 @@ type QueueParameters struct {
 	// +optional
 	ContentBasedDeduplication *bool `json:"contentBasedDeduplication,omitempty"`
 
-	//Boolean to enable server-side encryption (SSE) of
-	//message content with SQS-owned encryption keys. See Encryption at rest.
+	// Boolean to enable server-side encryption (SSE) of
+	// message content with SQS-owned encryption keys. See Encryption at rest.
 	SqsManagedSseEnabled *bool `json:"sseEnabled,omitempty"`
 
 	// Tags add cost allocation tags to the specified Amazon SQS queue.
diff --git a/pkg/clients/sqs/queue.go b/pkg/clients/sqs/queue.go
index 5090b25dd3..3f789394bd 100644
--- a/pkg/clients/sqs/queue.go
+++ b/pkg/clients/sqs/queue.go
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ func LateInitialize(in *v1beta1.QueueParameters, attributes map[string]string, t
 	in.VisibilityTimeout = awsclients.LateInitializeInt64Ptr(in.VisibilityTimeout, int64Ptr(attributes[v1beta1.AttributeVisibilityTimeout]))
 
 	in.SqsManagedSseEnabled = nil
-	SqsManagedSseEnabled, err := strconv.ParseBool(attributes[string(attributes[v1beta1.AttributeSqsManagedSseEnabled])])
+	SqsManagedSseEnabled, err := strconv.ParseBool(attributes[v1beta1.AttributeSqsManagedSseEnabled])
 	if err == nil && SqsManagedSseEnabled {
 		in.SqsManagedSseEnabled = awsclients.LateInitializeBoolPtr(in.SqsManagedSseEnabled, aws.Bool(SqsManagedSseEnabled))
 	}