# Playbook failing due to EC2 delays **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** aws\ **Created:** [October 10, 2014, 9:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/playbook-failing-due-to-ec2-delays/16485 "2014-10-10T09:37:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Peter\_Palmieri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/85e7bf/32.png) [@Peter\_Palmieri](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Peter_Palmieri)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2014, 9:37am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/playbook-failing-due-to-ec2-delays/16485/1 "2014-10-10T09:37:34Z")
I have a simple playbook that: 1 - starts an EC2 instance 2 - configures it 3 - creates an AMI from it 4 - terminates it Over the last few days, I’ve been seeing the job fail quite frequently on step 4, because it’s taking AWS too long to shut down the instance: TASK: [destroy all instances] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* failed: **] =\> (item=**) =\> {“failed”: true, “item”: “\*\*\*\*0”} msg: wait for instance termination timeout on Fri Oct 10 06:39:56 2014 It seem obvious that this us an EC2 issue, but is there any way to change how long Ansible will wait for an instance to terminate?