Timeout at task 'Wait for the instances to boot by checking the ssh port'

[dios231]

Although the EC2 status at AWS console is running the task keeps timeout.

Side info:
I debug the ec2 variable and I found out that the 'instances' list is empty and the 'tagged_instances' contains the ec2 information. I change the 'with_items' to "{{ ec2.tagged_instances }}" but nothing changed.

Error:
The full traceback is:
WARNING: The below traceback may not be related to the actual failure.
File "/tmp/ansible_wait_for_payload_o0UQHR/main.py", line 542, in main
s = _create_connection(host, port, min(connect_timeout, alt_connect_timeout))
File "/tmp/ansible_wait_for_payload_o0UQHR/main.py", line 407, in _create_connection
connect_socket = socket.create_connection((host, port), connect_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 575, in create_connection
raise err

failed: [localhost] (item={u'ramdisk': None, u'kernel': None, u'root_device_type': u'ebs', u'private_dns_name': u'ip-172-31-6-2.eu-west-2.compute.internal', u'block_device_mapping': {u'/dev/xvda': {u'status': u'attached', u'delete_on_termination': True, u'volume_id': u'vol-08d3d6ee639194a63'}, u'/dev/sda1': {u'status': u'attached', u'delete_on_termination': True, u'volume_id': u'vol-0cdee137ae639189d'}}, u'key_name': u'ansible-key', u'public_ip': u'35.178.37.2', u'image_id': u'ami-0b0a60c0a2bd40612', u'tenancy': u'default', u'private_ip': u'172.31.6.2', u'groups': {u'sg-64d28c0e': u'default'}, u'public_dns_name': u'ec2-35-178-37-2.eu-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com', u'state_code': 16, u'id': u'i-0ae8f6aadda7f13ed', u'tags': {u'Role': u'ansible', u'Type': u't2.micro'}, u'placement': u'eu-west-2c', u'ami_launch_index': u'0', u'dns_name': u'ec2-35-178-37-2.eu-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com', u'region': u'eu-west-2', u'ebs_optimized': False, u'launch_time': u'2018-12-21T13:51:42.000Z', u'instance_type': u't2.micro', u'state': u'running', u'architecture': u'x86_64', u'hypervisor': u'xen', u'virtualization_type': u'hvm', u'root_device_name': u'/dev/sda1'}) => {
"changed": false,
"elapsed": 301,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"active_connection_states": [
"ESTABLISHED",
"FIN_WAIT1",
"FIN_WAIT2",
"SYN_RECV",
"SYN_SENT",
"TIME_WAIT"
],
"connect_timeout": 5,
"delay": 15,
"exclude_hosts": null,
"host": "35.178.37.2",
"msg": null,
"path": null,
"port": 22,
"search_regex": null,
"sleep": 1,
"state": "started",
"timeout": 300
}
},
"item": {
"ami_launch_index": "0",
"architecture": "x86_64",
"block_device_mapping": {
"/dev/sda1": {
"delete_on_termination": true,
"status": "attached",
"volume_id": "vol-0cdee137ae639189d"
},
"/dev/xvda": {
"delete_on_termination": true,
"status": "attached",
"volume_id": "vol-08d3d6ee639194a63"
}
},
"dns_name": "ec2-35-178-37-2.eu-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com",
"ebs_optimized": false,
"groups": {
"sg-64d28c0e": "default"
},
"hypervisor": "xen",
"id": "i-0ae8f6aadda7f13ed",
"image_id": "ami-0b0a60c0a2bd40612",
"instance_type": "t2.micro",
"kernel": null,
"key_name": "ansible-key",
"launch_time": "2018-12-21T13:51:42.000Z",
"placement": "eu-west-2c",
"private_dns_name": "ip-172-31-6-2.eu-west-2.compute.internal",
"private_ip": "172.31.6.2",
"public_dns_name": "ec2-35-178-37-2.eu-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com",
"public_ip": "35.178.37.2",
"ramdisk": null,
"region": "eu-west-2",
"root_device_name": "/dev/sda1",
"root_device_type": "ebs",
"state": "running",
"state_code": 16,
"tags": {
"Role": "ansible",
"Type": "t2.micro"
},
"tenancy": "default",
"virtualization_type": "hvm"
},
"msg": "Timeout when waiting for 35.178.37.2:22"`