diff --git a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/recipes/config/config_external_slurmdbd_s3_mountpoint.rb b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/recipes/config/config_external_slurmdbd_s3_mountpoint.rb
index e0afc9614f..07b33c2025 100644
--- a/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/recipes/config/config_external_slurmdbd_s3_mountpoint.rb
+++ b/cookbooks/aws-parallelcluster-slurm/recipes/config/config_external_slurmdbd_s3_mountpoint.rb
@@ -45,6 +45,6 @@
 end
 
 execute 'mount slurmdbd configuration via S3' do
-  command "mount-s3 --allow-delete --uid $(id -u slurm) --gid $(id -g slurm) --dir-mode 0755 --file-mode 0600 #{node['slurmdbd_conf_bucket']} /opt/slurm/etc/"
+  command "mount-s3 --allow-delete --allow-overwrite --uid $(id -u slurm) --gid $(id -g slurm) --dir-mode 0755 --file-mode 0600 #{node['slurmdbd_conf_bucket']} /opt/slurm/etc/"
   user 'root'
 end