# How do I work with an existing deploy from a new Machine

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-do-i-work-with-an-existing-deploy-from-a-new-machine/16912>\
**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Tags:** aws\
**Created:** [March 18, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-do-i-work-with-an-existing-deploy-from-a-new-machine/16912 "2022-03-18T01:18:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 18, 2022, 1:18am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-do-i-work-with-an-existing-deploy-from-a-new-machine/16912/1 "2022-03-18T01:18:27Z")

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Hello All,

I am sure others have had to solve this before but I am but I don’t seem to be able to find the answer. I have a project that I have been using serverless to deploy to multiple environments to aws for several years now. This week got a new laptop, and I now that I got my project building on the new machine I need to deploy it to aws over the top of my existing deployment from my new machine. I tried to just do a

> serverless deploy --stage test --region us-east-1

but when I do this I get an error:

> ✖ Stack foo-test failed to deploy

> Error:  
> CREATE\_FAILED: fooRole (AWS::IAM::Role)  
> foo\_test\_role already exists in stack arn:aws:cloudformation:us-east-1:123456789:stack/foo-test/89d87020-dead-beef-dead-12989ba5c57e

There must be a way to “indicate” that my deploy is taking over an existing project. How do I do this?

Thank you!