diff --git a/plugins/modules/iam_managed_policy.py b/plugins/modules/iam_managed_policy.py
index a56e76d037f..d6cdd33525e 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/iam_managed_policy.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/iam_managed_policy.py
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@
 from ansible_collections.amazon.aws.plugins.module_utils.ec2 import compare_policies
 
 
-@AWSRetry.backoff(tries=5, delay=5, backoff=2.0)
+@AWSRetry.jittered_backoff(retries=5, delay=5, backoff=2.0)
 def list_policies_with_backoff(iam):
     paginator = iam.get_paginator('list_policies')
     return paginator.paginate(Scope='Local').build_full_result()