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+breaking_changes:
+- >-
+  ec2_instance - if plays require the old behavior of ``ec2_instance``, waiting for
+  EC2 instance monitoring status to become ``OK`` when launching a new instance,
+  the action will need to specify ``state: started`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/461).
+bugfixes:
+- >-
+  ec2_instance - ``ec2_instance`` was waiting on EC2 instance monitoring status
+  to be ``OK`` when launching a new instance. This could cause a play to wait
+  multiple minutes for AWS's monitoring to complete status checks
+  (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/461).