# Error creating RDS instance

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-creating-rds-instance/18786>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 16, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-creating-rds-instance/18786 "2015-07-16T21:04:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Guy\_Knights](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Guy\_Knights](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Guy_Knights)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2015, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-creating-rds-instance/18786/1 "2015-07-16T21:04:12Z")

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I’m getting the following in a playbook a task to create an RDS instance runs:

msg: failed to create instance: null

This task worked fine yesterday, today I made a minor change to the VPC task (below) by adding another app subnet and specifying availability zones for the 2 app subnets, but this should have no effect on the RDS task. The RDS task itself hasn’t been changed.

- name: provision white label vpc  
ec2\_vpc:  
state: present  
cidr\_block: “10.{{ wl\_vpc\_prefix }}.0.0/16”  
resource\_tags: { “Name”: “{{ wl\_name }}-bbe-vpc” }  
region: us-west-1  
subnets:
- cidr: “10.{{ wl\_vpc\_prefix }}.1.0/24”  
resource\_tags: { “Name”: “{{ wl\_name }}-bbe-public” }
- cidr: “10.{{ wl\_vpc\_prefix }}.2.0/24”  
az: us-west-1a  
resource\_tags: { “Name”: “{{ wl\_name }}-bbe-app” }
- cidr: “10.{{ wl\_vpc\_prefix }}.3.0/24”  
az: us-west-1b  
resource\_tags: { “Name”: “{{ wl\_name }}-bbe-app” }
- cidr: “10.{{ wl\_vpc\_prefix }}.4.0/24”  
resource\_tags: { “Name”: “{{ wl\_name }}-bbe-mgmt” }
- cidr: “10.{{ wl\_vpc\_prefix }}.5.0/24”  
az: us-west-1a  
resource\_tags: { “Name”: “{{ wl\_name }}-bbe-db” }
- cidr: “10.{{ wl\_vpc\_prefix }}.6.0/24”  
az: us-west-1b  
resource\_tags: { “Name”: “{{ wl\_name }}-bbe-db” }  
internet\_gateway: True  
route\_tables:
- subnets:
- “10.{{ wl\_vpc\_prefix }}.1.0/24”  
routes:
- dest: 0.0.0.0/0  
gw: igw  
register: vpc

Does anyone have any idea what the problem is here?

Thanks,  
Guy

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**Author:** ![Guy\_Knights](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Guy\_Knights](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Guy_Knights)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/error-creating-rds-instance/18786/2 "2015-07-24T17:22:53Z")

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Bump. Does anyone have any insight into what the issue might be here?

Thanks,  
Guy