diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bcabfb701e2..8d6a693621f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ AWS related modules and plugins supported by the Ansible Cloud team are in the [
 
 ## Ansible version compatibility
 
-Tested with the Ansible Core >= 2.12.0 versions, and the current development version of Ansible. Ansible Core versions before 2.12.0 are not supported.
+Tested with the Ansible Core >= 2.14.0 versions, and the current development version of Ansible. Ansible Core versions before 2.14.0 are not supported.
 
 Use community.aws 4.x.y if you are using Ansible 2.9 or Ansible Core 2.10.
 
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/8.0.0-increase-ansible-core-version.yml b/changelogs/fragments/8.0.0-increase-ansible-core-version.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e3653bb7590
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/8.0.0-increase-ansible-core-version.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+breaking_changes:
+  - community.aws collection - Support for ansible-core < 2.14 has been dropped (https://github.com/ansible-collections/community.aws/pull/2074).
diff --git a/meta/runtime.yml b/meta/runtime.yml
index 4c6bc72910d..71d258aae9d 100644
--- a/meta/runtime.yml
+++ b/meta/runtime.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-requires_ansible: '>=2.12.0'
+requires_ansible: '>=2.14.0'
 action_groups:
   aws:
     - accessanalyzer_validate_policy_info