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 Deploy the distributable to the Amazon S3 bucket in your account:
 ```bash
-aws s3 sync ./regional-s3-assets/ s3://$DIST_OUTPUT_BUCKET-$REGION/$SOLUTION_NAME/$VERSION/ --recursive --acl bucket-owner-full-control
-aws s3 sync ./global-s3-assets/ s3://$DIST_OUTPUT_BUCKET-$REGION/$SOLUTION_NAME/$VERSION/ --recursive --acl bucket-owner-full-control
+aws s3 sync ./regional-s3-assets/ s3://$DIST_OUTPUT_BUCKET-$REGION/$SOLUTION_NAME/$VERSION/ --acl bucket-owner-full-control
+aws s3 sync ./global-s3-assets/ s3://$DIST_OUTPUT_BUCKET-$REGION/$SOLUTION_NAME/$VERSION/ --acl bucket-owner-full-control
 ```
 
 ### 6. Launch the CloudFormation template.