# Serverless deploy failing in ap-south-1 with Serverless error ---------- Invalid character in entity name Line: 0 Column: 382 Char: = but working in other regions

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**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Tags:** lambda\
**Created:** [April 7, 2021, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/serverless-deploy-failing-in-ap-south-1-with-serverless-error-invalid-character-in-entity-name-line-0-column-382-char-but-working-in-other-regions/14654 "2021-04-07T05:04:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![surya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e8cbc/32.png) [@surya](https://forum.serverless.com/u/surya)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 5:04am UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/serverless-deploy-failing-in-ap-south-1-with-serverless-error-invalid-character-in-entity-name-line-0-column-382-char-but-working-in-other-regions/14654/1 "2021-04-07T05:04:18Z")

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Serverless: Packaging service…  
Serverless: Excluding development dependencies…  
Serverless: Injecting required Python packages to package…  
Serverless: Creating Stack…  
Serverless: Checking Stack create progress…  
CloudFormation - CREATE\_IN\_PROGRESS - AWS::CloudFormation::Stack - test-serverless-dev  
CloudFormation - CREATE\_IN\_PROGRESS - AWS::S3::Bucket - ServerlessDeploymentBucket  
CloudFormation - CREATE\_IN\_PROGRESS - AWS::S3::Bucket - ServerlessDeploymentBucket  
CloudFormation - CREATE\_COMPLETE - AWS::S3::Bucket - ServerlessDeploymentBucket  
CloudFormation - CREATE\_IN\_PROGRESS - AWS::S3::BucketPolicy - ServerlessDeploymentBucketPolicy  
CloudFormation - CREATE\_IN\_PROGRESS - AWS::S3::BucketPolicy - ServerlessDeploymentBucketPolicy  
CloudFormation - CREATE\_COMPLETE - AWS::S3::BucketPolicy - ServerlessDeploymentBucketPolicy  
CloudFormation - CREATE\_COMPLETE - AWS::CloudFormation::Stack - test-serverless-dev  
Serverless: Stack create finished…

Serverless Error ----------------------------------------

Invalid character in entity name  
Line: 0  
Column: 382  
Char: =

Your Environment Information ---------------------------  
Operating System: linux  
Node Version: 14.16.0  
Framework Version: 2.31.0  
Plugin Version: 4.5.2  
SDK Version: 4.2.2  
Components Version: 3.7.7

The same deployment doesn’t give this error in other aws regions and deployment is successful. Any resolution for this error? Please let me know how to resolve.  
Thank you