diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/amazon/rds_subnet_group.py b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/amazon/rds_subnet_group.py
index 59d051b4333..9d8cd786218 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/amazon/rds_subnet_group.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/amazon/rds_subnet_group.py
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ def main():
         module.fail_json(msg = str("Either region or AWS_REGION or EC2_REGION environment variable or boto config aws_region or ec2_region must be set."))
 
     try:
-        conn = boto.rds.connect_to_region(region, **aws_connection_kwargs)
+        conn = boto.rds.connect_to_region(region, **aws_connect_kwargs)
     except boto.exception.BotoServerError, e:
         module.fail_json(msg = e.error_message)