diff --git a/plugins/modules/aws_region_info.py b/plugins/modules/aws_region_info.py
index d0b74e3f112..bedb8a5f1fa 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/aws_region_info.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/aws_region_info.py
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@
 '''
 
 from ansible_collections.amazon.aws.plugins.module_utils.core import AnsibleAWSModule
-from ansible_collections.amazon.aws.plugins.module_utils.ec2 import AWSRetry, ansible_dict_to_boto3_filter_list, camel_dict_to_snake_dict
+from ansible_collections.amazon.aws.plugins.module_utils.ec2 import AWSRetry
+from ansible_collections.amazon.aws.plugins.module_utils.ec2 import ansible_dict_to_boto3_filter_list
+from ansible_collections.amazon.aws.plugins.module_utils.ec2 import camel_dict_to_snake_dict
 
 try:
     from botocore.exceptions import ClientError, BotoCoreError
@@ -86,6 +88,7 @@ def main():
 
     try:
         regions = connection.describe_regions(
+            aws_retry=True,
             Filters=ansible_dict_to_boto3_filter_list(sanitized_filters)
         )
     except (BotoCoreError, ClientError) as e: