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AI-generatedhugo deploy fails with 'Failed to create deployment target' on S3 despite valid credentials
Deployment Target Configuration Failure The hugo deploy command returns 'Failed to create deployment target' when attempting to deploy to an S3 bucket, even though AWS credentials are properly configured and the bucket exists with correct permissions. This error occurs consistently across multiple Hugo versions (0.80+) when using the standard S3 deployment t