First deploy fails due to dependent AWS Role

Serverless Framework
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I have a role definition in my serverless.yml which provides Lamdba functions the right to execute:

lambdaInvocation:
  Type: AWS::IAM::Policy
  Properties:
    PolicyName: truecash-invocation
    PolicyDocument:
      Version: '2012-10-17'
      Statement:
        - Effect: Allow
          Action:
            - lambda:InvokeFunction
            - lambda:ListFunctions
          Resource: 
            - "arn:aws:lambda:${self:custom.region}:*:function:truecash-services-${self:custom.stage}-*"
    Roles:
      - truecash-services-${self:custom.stage}-accounting
      - truecash-services-${self:custom.stage}-${self:provider.region}-lambdaRole

In my Dev environment this works just fine but now that I want to deploy to Prod I have a problem. It seems that when you deploy to a new stage it doesn’t setup the roles first and therefore my deployment fails because the functions depend on the role but the role hasn’t been created yet.

How can I get around this? Can I deploy only the resources?

2

please ignore, I was misinterpreting the error message