diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index ec49a2f2..5bab302e 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,18 @@ node_js: node
 
 # will run `npm install` automatically here
 
+dist: xenial
+
+# Deploying uses awscli and it uses Python.
+# Xenial on Travis comes with Python 2 & 3 installed but 2 is default.
+# Ensure pip3 is installed
+# and make python3 and pip3 the defaults:
+before_install:
+  - sudo apt-get -qq update
+  - sudo apt-get install python3-pip
+  - alias python=python3
+  - alias pip=pip3
+
 script:
   - npm test
   - 'if [ "$TRAVIS_SECURE_ENV_VARS" = "true" ]; then npm run build; fi'
diff --git a/scripts/deploy.sh b/scripts/deploy.sh
index 54cdd674..1c706957 100755
--- a/scripts/deploy.sh
+++ b/scripts/deploy.sh
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ SITEMAP_URL="https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.oceanprotocol.com%2Fsitemap.xml"
 #
 set -e;
 
+echo "Default python (used by awscli):"
+python --version
+
 function s3sync {
   aws s3 sync ./public s3://"$1" \
     --cache-control public,max-age=31536000,immutable \