diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/amazon/ec2.py b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/amazon/ec2.py
index 72b3d7686c..c8649f3d3d 100755
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/amazon/ec2.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/cloud/amazon/ec2.py
@@ -1233,7 +1233,7 @@ def terminate_instances(module, ec2, instance_ids):
                 instance_ids=terminated_instance_ids, \
                 filters={'instance-state-name':'terminated'})
             try:
-                num_terminated = len(response.pop().instances)
+                num_terminated = sum([len(res.instances) for res in response])
             except Exception as e:
                 # got a bad response of some sort, possibly due to
                 # stale/cached data. Wait a second and then try again