diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/2107-s3_download.yml b/changelogs/fragments/2107-s3_download.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b4604192745
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/2107-s3_download.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+  - s3_object - fixed issue which was causing ``MemoryError`` exceptions when downloading large files (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/issues/2107).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/s3_object.py b/plugins/modules/s3_object.py
index 0486d3b9f81..c3e45004a37 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/s3_object.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/s3_object.py
@@ -783,9 +783,6 @@ def upload_s3file(
 def download_s3file(module, s3, bucket, obj, dest, retries, version=None):
     if module.check_mode:
         module.exit_json(msg="GET operation skipped - running in check mode", changed=True)
-    # retries is the number of loops; range/xrange needs to be one
-    # more to get that count of loops.
-    _get_object_content(module, s3, bucket, obj, version)
 
     optional_kwargs = {"ExtraArgs": {"VersionId": version}} if version else {}
     for x in range(0, retries + 1):