# Community AWS Collection The Ansible Community AWS collection includes a variety of Ansible content to help automate the management of AWS services. This collection is maintained by the Ansible community. AWS related modules and plugins supported by the Ansible Cloud team are in the [amazon.aws](https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.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 community.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](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/python-support-policy-updates-for-aws-sdks-and-tools/) this collection requires Python 3.7 or greater. Amazon have also announced the planned end of support for [Python less than 3.8](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/python-support-policy-updates-for-aws-sdks-and-tools/). As such support for Python less than 3.8 will be removed in a release after 2024-12-01. ## 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 7.0.0 of this collection supports `boto3 >= 1.26.0` and `botocore >= 1.29.0` 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](https://ansible-collections.github.io/community.aws/branch/stable-7/collections/community/aws/index.html#plugin-index). ## Installing this collection You can install the AWS collection with the Ansible Galaxy CLI: ansible-galaxy collection install community.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: ```yaml --- collections: - name: community.aws ``` A specific version of the collection can be installed by using the `version` keyword in the `requirements.yml` file: ```yaml --- collections: - name: community.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 `community.aws.ec2_instance`, or you can call modules by their short name if you list the `community.aws` collection in the playbook's `collections` keyword: ```yaml --- - name: Create a DB instance using the default AWS KMS encryption key community.aws.rds_instance: id: test-encrypted-db state: present engine: mariadb storage_encrypted: True db_instance_class: db.t2.medium username: "{{ username }}" password: "{{ password }}" allocated_storage: "{{ allocated_storage }}" ``` ### See Also: * [Amazon Web Services Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/amazon/aws/docsite/guide_aws.html) * [Ansible Using collections](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/collections_using.html) 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 [Community AWS collection repository](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws). See [Contributing to Ansible-maintained collections](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/community/contributing_maintained_collections.html#contributing-maintained-collections) for more details. You can also join us on: - Libera.Chat IRC - the ``#ansible-aws`` [irc.libera.chat](https://libera.chat/) channel ### More information about contributing - [Ansible Community Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/index.html) - Details on contributing to Ansible - [Contributing to Collections](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collections.html#contributing-to-collections) - How to check out collection git repositories correctly - [Guidelines for Ansible Amazon AWS module development](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/amazon/aws/docsite/dev_guidelines.html) - [Getting Started With AWS Ansible Module Development and Community Contribution](https://www.ansible.com/blog/getting-started-with-aws-ansible-module-development) ## Release notes See the [rendered changelog](https://ansible-collections.github.io/community.aws/branch/stable-7/collections/community/aws/docsite/CHANGELOG.html) or the [raw generated changelog](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/tree/stable-7/CHANGELOG.rst). ## Roadmap ## More information - [Ansible Collection overview](https://github.com/ansible-collections/overview) - [Ansible User guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/user_guide/index.html) - [Ansible Developer guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/index.html) - [Ansible Collection Developer Guide](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/devel/dev_guide/developing_collections.html) - [Ansible Community code of conduct](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/community/code_of_conduct.html) ## Licensing GNU General Public License v3.0 or later. See [COPYING](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt) to see the full text.