Amazon AWS Collection

The Ansible Amazon AWS collection includes a variety of Ansible content to help automate the management of AWS instances. This collection is maintained by the Ansible cloud team.

AWS related modules and plugins supported by the Ansible community are in the community.aws collection.

Ansible version compatibility

Tested with the Ansible Core >= 2.12.0 versions, and the current development version of Ansible. Ansible Core versions before 2.12.0 are not supported.

Use amazon.aws 4.x.y if you are using Ansible 2.9 or Ansible Core 2.10.

Python version compatibility

This collection depends on the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3 and Botocore). Due to the AWS SDK Python Support Policy this collection requires Python 3.6 or greater.

Amazon have also announced the end of support for Python less than 3.7. As such support for Python less than 3.7 by this collection has been deprecated and will be removed in release 7.0.0. Additionally, support for Python less than 3.8 is expected to be removed in a release after 2024-12-01 based on currently available schedules.

AWS SDK version compatibility

Starting with the 2.0.0 releases of amazon.aws and community.aws, it is generally the collection's policy to support the versions of botocore and boto3 that were released 12 months prior to the most recent major collection release, following semantic versioning (for example, 2.0.0, 3.0.0).

Version 6.0.0 of this collection supports boto3 >= 1.22.0 and botocore >= 1.25.0

All support for the original AWS SDK boto was removed in release 4.0.0.

Included content

See the complete list of collection content in the Plugin Index.

Installing this collection

You can install the AWS collection with the Ansible Galaxy CLI:

ansible-galaxy collection install amazon.aws

You can also include it in a requirements.yml file and install it with ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml, using the format:

---
collections:
  - name: amazon.aws

A specific version of the collection can be installed by using the version keyword in the requirements.yml file:

---
collections:
  - name: amazon.aws
    version: 3.1.1

The python module dependencies are not installed by ansible-galaxy. They can be manually installed using pip:

pip install -r requirements.txt

or:

pip install boto3 botocore

Using this collection

You can either call modules by their Fully Qualified Collection Name (FQCN), such as amazon.aws.ec2_instance, or you can call modules by their short name if you list the amazon.aws collection in the playbook's collections keyword:

---
  - name: Setup an instance for testing
    amazon.aws.ec2_instance:
      name: '{{ resource_prefix }}'
      instance_type: t2.nano
      image_id: "{{ (amis.images | sort(attribute='creation_date') | last).image_id }}"
      wait: yes
      volumes:
        - device_name: /dev/xvda
          ebs:
            volume_size: 8
            delete_on_termination: true
    register: instance

See Also:

• Amazon Web Services Guide
• Ansible Using collections for more details.

Contributing to this collection

We welcome community contributions to this collection. If you find problems, please open an issue or create a PR against the Amazon AWS collection repository. See CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.

This collection is tested using GitHub Actions. To know more on testing, refer to CI.md.

You can also join us on:

• Libera.Chat IRC - the #ansible-aws irc.libera.chat channel

Release notes

See the rendered changelog or the raw generated changelog.

Roadmap

More information

• Ansible Collection overview
• Ansible User guide
• Ansible Developer guide
• Ansible Collection Developer Guide
• Ansible Community code of conduct

Licensing

GNU General Public License v3.0 or later.

See COPYING to see the full text.