SSH connection being closed when cutting an AMI using ec2_ami for Ansible

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I had problems with periodically getting "SSH Error: Shared connection to 52.49.192.253 closed" when cutting an AMI from an instance I'd created.
Because the default action of ec2_ami is to reboot the instance before creating the AMI, Ansible was loosing the connection.

The solution: set no_reboot to "yes" http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/ec2_ami_module.html

        - name: Cut AMI
          ec2_ami:
            region: "{{ aws_region }}"
            aws_region: "{{ aws_region }}"
            aws_access_key: "{{  aws_access_key }}"
            aws_secret_key: "{{  aws_secret_key }}"
            aws_region: "{{ aws_region }}"
            instance_id: "{{ instance_od }}"
            name: "example - {{ ansible_date_time.epoch }}"
            wait: yes
            no_reboot: yes
          register: ami