# Release Announcement: amazon.aws 12.0.0

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-amazon-aws-12-0-0/46474>\
**Category:** Ecosystem Releases\
**Tags:** aws, release, collections\
**Created:** [October 14, 2026, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-amazon-aws-12-0-0/46474 "2026-10-14T08:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![rasad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a9adbd/32.png) [@rasad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/rasad)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2026, 8:00am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/release-announcement-amazon-aws-12-0-0/46474/1 "2026-10-14T08:00:01Z")

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Hey everyone!

amazon.aws 12.0.0 has been released including:

- breaking changes raising the minimum requirements to ansible-core \>= 2.18.0 (Python \>= 3.11) and boto3/botocore \>= 1.38.23.
- removal of overdue deprecated parameters: placement\_group and tenancy from ec2\_instance, and template from cloudformation.
- breaking changes to the s3\_object module: the overwrite parameter now only accepts string values (always, never, different, latest), and dualstack/endpoint\_url are now mutually exclusive.
- bugfixes for route53\_zone (dnssec idempotency), rds\_cluster, and rds\_option\_group, plus refactoring improvements across the autoscaling, RDS, and ELB modules.

For full details, check out the release [here](https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/releases/tag/12.0.0)