# iam\_policy does nothing, just echos OK on nonexistant policy

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/iam-policy-does-nothing-just-echos-ok-on-nonexistant-policy/24777>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [June 20, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/iam-policy-does-nothing-just-echos-ok-on-nonexistant-policy/24777 "2017-06-20T21:40:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_Bushey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Michael\_Bushey](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Bushey)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/iam-policy-does-nothing-just-echos-ok-on-nonexistant-policy/24777/1 "2017-06-20T21:40:03Z")

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Ansible claims the task is “OK”, but it does not exist. Also I see no way to set the policy description field. Am I missing something or is the module completely broke?

╰─➤ dpkg -l | grep boto  
ii python-boto 2.40.0-1ubuntu1 all Python interface to Amazon’s Web Services - Python 2.x  
ii python-boto3 1.4.2-1 all Python interface to Amazon’s Web Services - Python 2.x  
ii python-botocore 1.5.7-1 all Low-level, data-driven core of boto 3 (Python 2)

╰─➤ ansible --version  
ansible 2.3.1.0  
config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg  
configured module search path = Default w/o overrides  
python version = 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10) [GCC 5.4.0 20160609]

╰─➤ cat aws\_policy.yml