# AWS modules and --diff

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-modules-and-diff/20834>\
**Category:** Ansible Developer\
**Tags:** aws\
**Created:** [March 10, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-modules-and-diff/20834 "2016-03-10T20:09:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Josh\_Smift1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Josh\_Smift1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Josh_Smift1)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 8:09pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-modules-and-diff/20834/1 "2016-03-10T20:09:05Z")

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A couple of AWS modules don't do anything useful with --diff, and it'd be  
great if they did -- ec2\_group and ec2\_elb\_lb are the two in particular  
that we use a lot. I didn't see a feature request ticket for this; should  
I make one? It's probably beyond my personal abilities to implement, alas.

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-modules-and-diff/20834/2 "2016-03-10T20:10:39Z")

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I agree, this would be great, make a proposal or open a ‘feature idea’ ticket.

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**Author:** ![Josh\_Smift1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@Josh\_Smift1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Josh_Smift1)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-modules-and-diff/20834/3 "2016-03-10T20:24:47Z")

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I created [https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/3221](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/3221) for  
ec2\_group.py in particular; probably makes sense to do this for one module  
first, and then apply the principle to others? Things like "what should  
the diff format look like".

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Davila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Jonathan\_Davila](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jonathan_Davila)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/aws-modules-and-diff/20834/4 "2016-03-22T17:31:06Z")

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I agree this would be pretty neat but unfortunately a lower priority than other things (pending bug fixes, new modules, boto3 conversions, etc)