diff --git a/lib/plugins/aws/deploy/lib/checkForChanges.test.js b/lib/plugins/aws/deploy/lib/checkForChanges.test.js
index 7215edcb7..9d8e59242 100644
--- a/lib/plugins/aws/deploy/lib/checkForChanges.test.js
+++ b/lib/plugins/aws/deploy/lib/checkForChanges.test.js
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ const normalizeFiles = require('../../lib/normalizeFiles');
 const AwsProvider = require('../../provider/awsProvider');
 const AwsDeploy = require('../index');
 const Serverless = require('../../../../Serverless');
+const runServerless = require('../../../../../tests/utils/run-serverless');
+const fixtures = require('../../../../../tests/fixtures');
 
 // Configure chai
 chai.use(require('chai-as-promised'));
@@ -996,3 +998,60 @@ describe('checkForChanges', () => {
     });
   });
 });
+
+describe('checkForChanges #2', () => {
+  after(fixtures.cleanup);
+  it('Should recognize package.artifcat', () =>
+    runServerless({
+      cwd: fixtures.map.packageArtifact,
+      cliArgs: ['deploy'],
+      env: { AWS_CONTAINER_CREDENTIALS_FULL_URI: 'ignore' },
+      lastLifecycleHookName: 'aws:deploy:deploy:checkForChanges',
+      awsRequestStubMap: {
+        CloudFormation: {
+          describeStacks: {},
+          describeStackResource: {
+            StackResourceDetail: { PhysicalResourceId: 'deployment-bucket' },
+          },
+        },
+        Lambda: {
+          getFunction: {
+            Configuration: {
+              LastModified: '2020-05-20T15:34:16.494+0000',
+            },
+          },
+        },
+        S3: {
+          headObject: {
+            Metadata: { filesha256: 'RRYyTm4Ri8mocpvx44pvas4JKLYtdJS3Z8MOlrZrDXA=' },
+          },
+          listObjectsV2: {
+            Contents: [
+              {
+                Key:
+                  'serverless/test-package-artifact/dev/1589988704359-2020-05-20T15:31:44.359Z/artifact.zip',
+                LastModified: new Date(),
+                ETag: '"5102a4cf710cae6497dba9e61b85d0a4"',
+                Size: 356,
+                StorageClass: 'STANDARD',
+              },
+            ],
+          },
+        },
+        STS: {
+          getCallerIdentity: {
+            ResponseMetadata: { RequestId: 'ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff' },
+            UserId: 'XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX',
+            Account: '999999999999',
+            Arn: 'arn:aws:iam::999999999999:user/test',
+          },
+        },
+      },
+    }).then(serverless => {
+      expect(
+        serverless.service.provider.compiledCloudFormationTemplate.Resources.FooLambdaFunction.Properties.Code.S3Key.endsWith(
+          '/artifact.zip'
+        )
+      ).to.be.true;
+    }));
+});
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/packageArtifact/artifact.zip b/tests/fixtures/packageArtifact/artifact.zip
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..53781c530
Binary files /dev/null and b/tests/fixtures/packageArtifact/artifact.zip differ
diff --git a/tests/fixtures/packageArtifact/serverless.yml b/tests/fixtures/packageArtifact/serverless.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..899e75bdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/fixtures/packageArtifact/serverless.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+service: service
+provider:
+  name: aws
+
+package:
+  artifact: artifact.zip
+
+functions:
+  foo:
+    handler: index.handler
+  other:
+    handler: index.handler