diff --git a/contrib/inventory/ec2.py b/contrib/inventory/ec2.py
index 5b30c901042..ca81ef0d76d 100755
--- a/contrib/inventory/ec2.py
+++ b/contrib/inventory/ec2.py
@@ -656,11 +656,11 @@ class Ec2Inventory(object):
 
             if e.error_code == 'AuthFailure':
                 error = self.get_auth_error_message()
-            if e.error_code == "OptInRequired":
+            elif e.error_code == "OptInRequired":
                 error = "RDS hasn't been enabled for this account yet. " \
                     "You must either log in to the RDS service through the AWS console to enable it, " \
                     "or set 'rds = False' in ec2.ini"
-            if not e.reason == "Forbidden":
+            elif not e.reason == "Forbidden":
                 error = "Looks like AWS RDS is down:\n%s" % e.message
             self.fail_with_error(error, 'getting RDS instances')
 
@@ -742,11 +742,11 @@ class Ec2Inventory(object):
 
             if e.error_code == 'AuthFailure':
                 error = self.get_auth_error_message()
-            if e.error_code == "OptInRequired":
+            elif e.error_code == "OptInRequired":
                 error = "ElastiCache hasn't been enabled for this account yet. " \
                     "You must either log in to the ElastiCache service through the AWS console to enable it, " \
                     "or set 'elasticache = False' in ec2.ini"
-            if not e.reason == "Forbidden":
+            elif not e.reason == "Forbidden":
                 error = "Looks like AWS ElastiCache is down:\n%s" % e.message
             self.fail_with_error(error, 'getting ElastiCache clusters')