diff --git a/.github/workflows/generate-census.yml b/.github/workflows/generate-census.yml
index f0f6adbb..3e2327d2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/generate-census.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/generate-census.yml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Upload Census Zip to Geoplatform AWS
         run: |
           ls ./data_pipeline/data/tmp
-          aws s3 sync ./data_pipeline/data/tmp/census.zip s3://justice40-data/data-sources/census.zip --acl public-read --delete
+          aws s3 cp ./data_pipeline/data/tmp/census.zip s3://justice40-data/data-sources/census.zip --acl public-read --delete
       - name: Update PR with Comment about deployment
         uses: mshick/add-pr-comment@v1
         with: