diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
deleted file mode 100644
index 920a6cf2..00000000
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-compressed/*.tar.gz filter=lfs diff=lfs merge=lfs -text
diff --git a/.github/workflows/compress-cookbooks.yml b/.github/workflows/compress-cookbooks.yml
index e8cad93c..2f434546 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/compress-cookbooks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/compress-cookbooks.yml
@@ -8,14 +8,13 @@ jobs:
       - name: Check out repository code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Compress Cookbooks
-        run: |
-          cd ..
-          tar --exclude='./compressed' -czvf cookbooks.tar.gz -C ${{ github.workspace }} .
-          mv cookbooks.tar.gz ${{ github.workspace }}/compressed
-      - name: Commit and push
-        run: |
-          git config user.name github-actions
-          git config user.email github-actions@github.com
-          git add compressed/cookbooks.tar.gz
-          git commit -m 'update compressed cookbooks'
-          git push
+        run: tar --exclude='cookbooks.tar.gz' -czvf cookbooks.tar.gz -C ${{ github.workspace }} .
+      - name: Configure AWS Credentials
+        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v2
+        with:
+          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
+          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
+          aws-region: us-east-1
+      - name: Upload to S3
+        run: aws s3 sync cookbooks.tar.gz s3://ssm.jumbledev.com/cookbooks.tar.gz
+
diff --git a/compressed/cookbooks.tar.gz b/compressed/cookbooks.tar.gz
deleted file mode 100644
index 9ca27894..00000000
--- a/compressed/cookbooks.tar.gz
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:0bc7214b24a12dfaf8904e24e6daacf18aa04d68f7775a54fbb0f684001f8842
-size 116159095