diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a5d63ae67..35b4b4223 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 ## [Unreleased]
 ### Fixed
 - fixed an issues causing static sites in regions other than us-east-1 to redirect to the s3 object until CloudFront was able to use the global endpoint of the bucket
+- fixed uncaught static site auth@edge errors in refresh token handling
 
 ## [1.13.0] - 2020-09-14
 ### Added
diff --git a/runway/hooks/staticsite/auth_at_edge/templates/shared.py b/runway/hooks/staticsite/auth_at_edge/templates/shared.py
index 20fc63d25..97c71883d 100644
--- a/runway/hooks/staticsite/auth_at_edge/templates/shared.py
+++ b/runway/hooks/staticsite/auth_at_edge/templates/shared.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 import logging
 import re
 import time
-import traceback
 from datetime import datetime
 from random import random
 from urllib import request  # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
@@ -304,9 +303,8 @@ def http_post_with_retry(url, data, headers):
         except Exception as err:
             LOGGER.error("HTTP POST to %s failed (attempt %s)", url, attempts)
             LOGGER.error(err)
-            LOGGER.error(traceback.print_exc())
             if attempts >= 5:
-                break
+                raise
             if attempts >= 2:
                 # After attempting twice do some exponential backoff with jitter
                 time.sleep((25 * (pow(2, attempts) + random() * attempts)) / 1000)