AWS ELB Module - ec2_elb_lb - Rate Exceeded

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My understanding was boto handled this with exponential backoff and retry. However exceptions don’t seem to be handled. We a lot of jobs running playbooks in parallel and when multiple jobs kick off, most of the fail due to this error.

**08:56:53**     self.elb.configure_health_check(self.elb.health_check)
**08:56:53**   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto/ec2/elb/loadbalancer.py", line 310, in configure_health_check
**08:56:53**     return self.connection.configure_health_check(self.name, health_check)
**08:56:53**   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto/ec2/elb/__init__.py", line 576, in configure_health_check
**08:56:53**     return self.get_object('ConfigureHealthCheck', params, HealthCheck)
**08:56:53**   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/boto/connection.py", line 1208, in get_object
**08:56:53**     raise self.ResponseError(response.status, response.reason, body)
**08:56:53** boto.exception.BotoServerError: BotoServerError: 400 Bad Request
**08:56:53** <ErrorResponse xmlns="[http://elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-06-01/](http://elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-06-01/)">
**08:56:53**   <Error>
**08:56:53**     <Type>Sender</Type>
**08:56:53**     <Code>Throttling</Code>
**08:56:53**     <Message>Rate exceeded</Message>
**08:56:53**   </Error>
**08:56:53**   <RequestId>7e8d6104-3920-11e6-9950-679774408258</RequestId>
**08:56:53** </ErrorResponse>





Does the rescue block handle these and can you use a retries on a block?
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This is on ansible 2.0.1.0