diff --git a/website/source/docs/builders/amazon-chroot.html.md b/website/source/docs/builders/amazon-chroot.html.md
index 6af73d0a5..24622e049 100644
--- a/website/source/docs/builders/amazon-chroot.html.md
+++ b/website/source/docs/builders/amazon-chroot.html.md
@@ -455,6 +455,11 @@ services:
 }
 ```
 
+### Ansible provisioner
+
+Running ansible against `amazon-chroot` requires changing the Ansible connection
+to chroot and running Ansible as root/sudo.
+
 ### Using Instances with NVMe block devices.
 
 In C5, C5d, M5, and i3.metal instances, EBS volumes are exposed as NVMe block
diff --git a/website/source/docs/provisioners/ansible.html.md b/website/source/docs/provisioners/ansible.html.md
index 04b7134f2..440215b8a 100644
--- a/website/source/docs/provisioners/ansible.html.md
+++ b/website/source/docs/provisioners/ansible.html.md
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ Redhat / CentOS builds have been known to fail with the following error due to
 ### chroot communicator
 
 Building within a chroot (e.g. `amazon-chroot`) requires changing the Ansible
-connection to chroot.
+connection to chroot and running Ansible as root/sudo.
 
 ``` json
 {