# AWS ELB Module - ec2\_elb\_lb - Rate Exceeded

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-elb-module-ec2-elb-lb-rate-exceeded/21846>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** aws\
**Created:** [June 23, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-elb-module-ec2-elb-lb-rate-exceeded/21846 "2016-06-23T15:45:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![james4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@james4](https://forum.ansible.com/u/james4)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-elb-module-ec2-elb-lb-rate-exceeded/21846/1 "2016-06-23T15:45:40Z")

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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.

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**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>

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Does the rescue block handle these and can you use a retries on a block?

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**Author:** ![james4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9f8e36/32.png) [@james4](https://forum.ansible.com/u/james4)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-elb-module-ec2-elb-lb-rate-exceeded/21846/2 "2016-06-23T15:46:30Z")

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This is on ansible 2.0.1.0