diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 2d775eb5237..c92cc81ad76 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -5,6 +5,39 @@ amazon.aws Release Notes
 .. contents:: Topics
 
 
+v7.1.0
+======
+
+Release Summary
+---------------
+
+This release brings some new features and several bugfixes.
+
+Minor Changes
+-------------
+
+- autoscaling_group - minor PEP8 whitespace sanity fixes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1846).
+- ec2_ami_info - simplify parameters to ``get_image_attribute`` to only pass ID of image (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1846).
+- ec2_eip - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1843)
+- ec2_security_group - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1844)
+- ec2_vpc_igw - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1843)
+- ec2_vpc_route_table - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1843)
+- ec2_vpc_subnet - the default value for ``tags`` has been changed from ``{}`` to ``None``, to remove tags from a subnet an empty map must be explicitly passed to the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1876).
+- ec2_vpc_subnet - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1843)
+- 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).
+- iam_group - add support for setting group path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1892).
+- iam_group - adds attached_policies return value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1892).
+- iam_group - code refactored to avoid single long function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1892).
+- ec2_instance - add support for AdditionalInfo option when creating an instance (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1828).
+- rds_instance_snapshot - minor PEP8 whitespace sanity fixes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1846).
+
+Bugfixes
+--------
+
+- ec2_vpc_subnet - cleanly handle failure when subnet isn't created in time (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1848).
+- s3_object - Fix typo that caused false deprecation warning when setting ``overwrite=latest`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1847).
+- s3_object - when doing a put and specifying ``Content-Type`` in metadata, this module (since 6.0.0) erroneously set the ``Content-Type`` to ``None`` causing the put to fail. Fix now correctly honours the specified ``Content-Type`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1881).
+
 v7.0.0
 ======
 
diff --git a/changelogs/changelog.yaml b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
index dbbf4f9082c..da57d17d9c4 100644
--- a/changelogs/changelog.yaml
+++ b/changelogs/changelog.yaml
@@ -2578,3 +2578,51 @@ releases:
       name: rds_global_cluster_info
       namespace: ''
     release_date: '2023-11-02'
+  7.1.0:
+    changes:
+      bugfixes:
+      - ec2_vpc_subnet - cleanly handle failure when subnet isn't created in time
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1848).
+      - s3_object - Fix typo that caused false deprecation warning when setting ``overwrite=latest```
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1847).
+      - s3_object - when doing a put and specifying ``Content-Type`` in metadata,
+        this module (since 6.0.0) erroneously set the ``Content-Type`` to ``None``
+        causing the put to fail. Fix now correctly honours the specified ``Content-Type``
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1881).
+      minor_changes:
+      - autoscaling_group - minor PEP8 whitespace sanity fixes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1846).
+      - ec2_ami_info - simplify parameters to ``get_image_attribute`` to only pass
+        ID of image (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1846).
+      - ec2_eip - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1843)
+      - ec2_security_group - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1844)
+      - ec2_vpc_igw - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1843)
+      - ec2_vpc_route_table - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation
+        (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1843)
+      - ec2_vpc_subnet - the default value for ``tags`` has been changed from ``{}``
+        to ``None``, to remove tags from a subnet an empty map must be explicitly
+        passed to the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1876).
+      - ec2_vpc_subnet - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1843)
+      - 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).
+      - iam_group - add support for setting group path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1892).
+      - iam_group - adds attached_policies return value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1892).
+      - iam_group - code refactored to avoid single long function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1892).
+      - ec2_instance - add support for AdditionalInfo option when creating
+        an instance (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1828).
+      - rds_instance_snapshot - minor PEP8 whitespace sanity fixes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1846).
+      release_summary: This release brings some new features and several bugfixes.
+    fragments:
+    - 1828-ec2_instance_additional_info.yml
+    - 1843-ec2_eip.yml
+    - 1843-ec2_security_group-tags.yml
+    - 1843-ec2_vpc_igw.yml
+    - 1843-ec2_vpc_route_table.yml
+    - 1843-ec2_vpc_subnet.yml
+    - 1847-s3_object-fix-false-deprecation-warning.yml
+    - 1848-ec2_vpc_subnet-wait-creation.yml
+    - 1881-allow-s3_object-to-specify-content-type-in-metadata.yml
+    - 20231110-sanity.yml
+    - 20231130-iam_group.yml
+    - release_summary.yml
+    release_date: '2023-12-05'
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1828-ec2_instance_additional_info.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1828-ec2_instance_additional_info.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 774d279d691..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1828-ec2_instance_additional_info.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-  - modules/ec2_instance - add support for AdditionalInfo option when creating an instance (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1828).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_eip.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_eip.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 10de3bec3a4..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_eip.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- ec2_eip - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1843)
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_security_group-tags.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_security_group-tags.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 937dd26ade1..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_security_group-tags.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- ec2_security_group - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1844)
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_vpc_igw.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_vpc_igw.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 247effda99e..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_vpc_igw.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- ec2_vpc_igw - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1843)
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_vpc_route_table.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_vpc_route_table.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 431ba4ea55f..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_vpc_route_table.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- ec2_vpc_route_table - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1843)
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_vpc_subnet.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_vpc_subnet.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 2fce4878c19..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1843-ec2_vpc_subnet.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- ec2_vpc_subnet - use ``ResourceTags`` to set initial tags upon creation (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1843)
-- ec2_vpc_subnet - the default value for ``tags`` has been changed from ``{}`` to ``None``, to remove tags from a subnet an empty map must
-  be explicitly passed to the module (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1876).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1847-s3_object-fix-false-deprecation-warning.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1847-s3_object-fix-false-deprecation-warning.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index f00b5026d16..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1847-s3_object-fix-false-deprecation-warning.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
----
-bugfixes:
-  - s3_object - Fix typo that caused false deprecation warning when setting `overwrite=latest` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1847).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1848-ec2_vpc_subnet-wait-creation.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1848-ec2_vpc_subnet-wait-creation.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index eeaf5636819..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1848-ec2_vpc_subnet-wait-creation.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-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).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/1881-allow-s3_object-to-specify-content-type-in-metadata.yml b/changelogs/fragments/1881-allow-s3_object-to-specify-content-type-in-metadata.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 6051a344d5e..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/1881-allow-s3_object-to-specify-content-type-in-metadata.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-bugfixes:
-  - s3_object - when doing a put and specifying ``Content-Type`` in metadata, this module (since 6.0.0) erroneously set the ``Content-Type`` to ``None`` causing the put to fail.
-    Fix now correctly honours the specified ``Content-Type`` (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/1881).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/20231110-sanity.yml b/changelogs/fragments/20231110-sanity.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 44c4a3379fe..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/20231110-sanity.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- autoscaling_group - minor PEP8 whitespace sanity fixes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1846).
-- rds_instance_snapshot - minor PEP8 whitespace sanity fixes (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1846).
-- ec2_ami_info - simplify parameters to ``get_image_attribute`` to only pass ID of image (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1846).
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/20231130-iam_group.yml b/changelogs/fragments/20231130-iam_group.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index e17f68adc15..00000000000
--- a/changelogs/fragments/20231130-iam_group.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-minor_changes:
-- iam_group - add support for setting group path (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1892).
-- iam_group - adds attached_policies return value (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1892).
-- iam_group - code refactored to avoid single long function (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/1892).
diff --git a/galaxy.yml b/galaxy.yml
index 21058635947..b39d6832ee0 100644
--- a/galaxy.yml
+++ b/galaxy.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 namespace: amazon
 name: aws
-version: 7.0.0
+version: 7.1.0
 readme: README.md
 authors:
   - Ansible (https://github.com/ansible)
diff --git a/plugins/module_utils/common.py b/plugins/module_utils/common.py
index f3e21ed4d12..2bddbc46382 100644
--- a/plugins/module_utils/common.py
+++ b/plugins/module_utils/common.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
 
 AMAZON_AWS_COLLECTION_NAME = "amazon.aws"
-AMAZON_AWS_COLLECTION_VERSION = "7.0.0"
+AMAZON_AWS_COLLECTION_VERSION = "7.1.0"
 
 
 _collection_info_context = {