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Ansible ec2 module "region must be specified" issue

Some month ago I made an Ansible based autoinstall for Hortonwork's HDP 2.2. Since HDP 2.2.4.2 is out I wanted to update my install process and test how it works. However I had to realize that my previously working ansible playbooks are failing with an error message. TASK: [Launching Ambari instance] ********************************************* failed: [localhost] => {"failed": true} msg: region must be specified FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting First I have checked my ansible, eucalyptus and boto config. However everything was fine. So I have checked the code of the ec2 module of ansible and found the error message in the source. # tail -n +1205 /usr/share/pyshared/ansible/modules/core/cloud/amazon/ec2.py|head -17 ec2 = ec2_connect(module) ec2_url, aws_access_key, aws_secret_key, region = get_ec2_creds(module) if region: try: vpc = boto.vpc.connect_to_region( region, aws_access_key_id=aws_access_key, aws_secret_access_key=aws_secr