diff --git a/conductor/src/aws/cloudformation.rs b/conductor/src/aws/cloudformation.rs
index d35fa9683..57ec9ad00 100644
--- a/conductor/src/aws/cloudformation.rs
+++ b/conductor/src/aws/cloudformation.rs
@@ -88,11 +88,21 @@ impl AWSConfigState {
         stack_name: &str,
         params: &CloudFormationParams,
         cloudformation_template_bucket: String,
+        aws_region: String,
     ) -> Result<(), ConductorError> {
-        let template_url = format!(
-            "https://{}.s3.amazonaws.com/{}",
-            cloudformation_template_bucket, "conductor-cf-template-v2.yaml"
-        );
+        // If region is us-east-1, we don't need to specify the region in the template url
+        let template_url = if aws_region == "us-east-1" {
+            format!(
+                "https://{}.s3.amazonaws.com/{}",
+                cloudformation_template_bucket, "conductor-cf-template-v2.yaml"
+            )
+        } else {
+            format!(
+                "https://{}.s3.{}.amazonaws.com/{}",
+                cloudformation_template_bucket, aws_region, "conductor-cf-template-v2.yaml"
+            )
+        };
+
         let parameters = params.clone().parameters();
         if !self.does_stack_exist(stack_name).await {
             // todo(nhudson): We need to add tags to the stack
diff --git a/conductor/src/lib.rs b/conductor/src/lib.rs
index 6a0a511e0..90f082442 100644
--- a/conductor/src/lib.rs
+++ b/conductor/src/lib.rs
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@ pub async fn create_cloudformation(
     // back to the queue.
     // If there is an error we will need to alert on it
     // If we are still waiting for the stack to be created we will need to requeue the message
-    let region = Region::new(aws_region);
+    let region = Region::new(aws_region.clone());
     let aws_config_state = AWSConfigState::new(region).await;
     let stack_name = format!("{}-cf", namespace);
     let iam_role_name = format!("{}-iam", namespace);
@@ -416,7 +416,12 @@ pub async fn create_cloudformation(
         service_account_name,
     };
     aws_config_state
-        .create_cloudformation_stack(&stack_name, &cf_template_params, cf_template_bucket)
+        .create_cloudformation_stack(
+            &stack_name,
+            &cf_template_params,
+            cf_template_bucket,
+            aws_region,
+        )
         .await
         .map_err(ConductorError::from)?;
     Ok(())