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Can't subscribe to events of existing S3 bucket

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Mar 14, 20260 views
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Problem

This is a Bug Report Description When specifying an already existing S3 bucket (xxx) in a function event, I get this error on deploy: [code block] I could not find documentation on how to subscribe to events of an existing S3 bucket in 1.0 rc1. This worked in 0.5.

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Solution: Can't subscribe to events of existing S3 bucket

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There is a plugin for handling this https://github.com/matt-filion/serverless-external-s3-event It should do what you want @kennu

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    There is a plugin for handling this https://github.com/matt-filion/serverless-ex

    There is a plugin for handling this https://github.com/matt-filion/serverless-external-s3-event It should do what you want @kennu

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Resolved in serverless/serverless GitHub issue #2154. Community reactions: 10 upvotes.

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Last verified Mar 14, 2026

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Alex Chen

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