diff --git a/packages/serverless-cms-aws/src/api/plugins/executeDataMigrations.ts b/packages/serverless-cms-aws/src/api/plugins/executeDataMigrations.ts
index 059a2d3980e..06e20312c0e 100644
--- a/packages/serverless-cms-aws/src/api/plugins/executeDataMigrations.ts
+++ b/packages/serverless-cms-aws/src/api/plugins/executeDataMigrations.ts
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ export const executeDataMigrations = {
         } catch (e) {
             context.error(`An error occurred while executing data migrations Lambda function!`);
             console.log(e);
+            throw e;
         }
     }
 };