# How to force deployment?

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-force-deployment/1152>\
**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Created:** [January 20, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-force-deployment/1152 "2017-01-20T05:04:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![jkristia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@jkristia](https://forum.serverless.com/u/jkristia)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-force-deployment/1152/1 "2017-01-20T05:04:44Z")

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I was just playing with deployment on serverless. The problem I have now is that after I manually deleted the s3 bucket, I’m no longer able to deploy. I get a ‘The specified bucket does not exist’ error. I cannot find any option to ‘force deploy’. What is the trick to fix an issue like this, where you manually remove one of the deployed items.

Thanks  
Jesper

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**Author:** ![jkristia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@jkristia](https://forum.serverless.com/u/jkristia)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-force-deployment/1152/2 "2017-01-20T17:18:00Z")

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I found that changing the service name in .yml, from e.g  
`service:server`  
to  
`service:serverV1`  
solves the issue. I have not been able to find where this information is stored.

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**Author:** ![jkristia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e56c9b/32.png) [@jkristia](https://forum.serverless.com/u/jkristia)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-force-deployment/1152/3 "2017-01-20T21:47:37Z")

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Got it. It checks the deployment against the stored CloudFormation stack, which is named '-.  
Once I deleted the stack, then I can redeploy. Makes perfect sense.

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**Author:** ![rowanu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/forum.serverless.com/rowanu/32/75_2.png) [@rowanu](https://forum.serverless.com/u/rowanu)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 3:54am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-force-deployment/1152/4 "2017-01-21T03:54:30Z")

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Nice one finding/sharing this fix!

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**Author:** ![KrishnanSriram](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@KrishnanSriram](https://forum.serverless.com/u/KrishnanSriram)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-to-force-deployment/1152/5 "2018-02-11T15:16:33Z")

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If this is DEV deploy or something you are playing with. You can change the region. This will make the deployment happen  
e.g.  
serverless deploy --region eu-central-1