After a change in pystac 1.10 that performs a load of all the absolute links in a STAC item , the stac reader may not load properly the assets the item.
See stac-utils/pystac#1336 for more details.
A further change to ensure consistency in rio-tiler would be to replace the boto3 loader in STAC reader with a custom S3 reader as recommended in https://pystac.readthedocs.io/en/stable/concepts.html#i-o-in-pystac