diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 92717f7ba8f..d8c78606d43 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,15 +4,11 @@ The Ansible Community AWS collection includes a variety of Ansible content to he
 
 AWS related modules and plugins supported by the Ansible Cloud team are in the [amazon.aws](https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws) collection.
 
-<!--start requires_ansible-->
 ## Ansible version compatibility
 
-This collection has been tested against following Ansible versions: **>=2.9.10**.
+Tested with the Ansible Core 2.12, and 2.13 releases, and the current development version of Ansible. Ansible Core versions before 2.11.0 are not supported. In particular, Ansible Core 2.10 and Ansible 2.9 are not supported.
 
-Plugins and modules within a collection may be tested with only specific Ansible versions.
-A collection may contain metadata that identifies these versions.
-PEP440 is the schema used to describe the versions of Ansible.
-<!--end requires_ansible-->
+Use community.aws 4.x.y if you are using Ansible 2.9 or Ansible Core 2.10.
 
 ## Python version compatibility
 
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1541-old-ansible.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1541-old-ansible.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..a40d5cd75fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/1541-old-ansible.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+breaking_changes:
+- community.aws collection - Support for ansible-core < 2.11 has been dropped (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/1541).
diff --git a/meta/runtime.yml b/meta/runtime.yml
index 3bada22a1c3..d0fe8feb4c7 100644
--- a/meta/runtime.yml
+++ b/meta/runtime.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-requires_ansible: '>=2.9.10'
+requires_ansible: '>=2.11.0'
 action_groups:
   aws:
   - accessanalyzer_validate_policy_info