AWS EKS 1.17. PVC - "waiting for first consumer to be created before binding"

Question

PVC is in a pending state due to the error :

Events:
  Type    Reason                Age                From                         Message
  ----    ------                ----               ----                         -------
  Normal  WaitForFirstConsumer  13s (x3 over 34s)  persistentvolume-controller  waiting for first consumer to be created before binding

As a result the pods don't come up. (waiting for pv...) I'm using the aws-ebs storage class.

ubuntu@ip$ k get sc
NAME            PROVISIONER             RECLAIMPOLICY   VOLUMEBINDINGMODE      ALLOWVOLUMEEXPANSION   AGE
cloud-storage   ebs.csi.aws.com         Delete          WaitForFirstConsumer   true                   31d
gp2 (default)   kubernetes.io/aws-ebs   Delete          WaitForFirstConsumer   false                  36d

I see that aws-ebs provisioner failure is due to the missing --cloud-provider=aws and --cloud-config=/etc/kubernetes/cloud_config arguments on apiserver and controller-manager Pods but in this case the control plane is managed by AWS. Has anyone come across a similar issue on EKS ?