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+bugfixes:
+- ec2_vpc_subnet - cleanly handle failure when subnet isn't created in time (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1848).
+minor_changes:
+- ec2_vpc_subnet - use ``wait_timeout`` to also control maximum time to wait for initial creation of subnets (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1848).