diff --git a/testing/storage-test-aws/src/test/java/org/opengroup/osdu/storage/records/TestRecordsApiAcceptance.java b/testing/storage-test-aws/src/test/java/org/opengroup/osdu/storage/records/TestRecordsApiAcceptance.java
index 3291da1b877682983c0edc1bf7185a93c52e92d2..31918c1da2a6b6444482b6587fa587b45e9867a9 100644
--- a/testing/storage-test-aws/src/test/java/org/opengroup/osdu/storage/records/TestRecordsApiAcceptance.java
+++ b/testing/storage-test-aws/src/test/java/org/opengroup/osdu/storage/records/TestRecordsApiAcceptance.java
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ public class TestRecordsApiAcceptance extends RecordsApiAcceptanceTests {
     @Override
     public void setup() throws Exception {
         this.testUtils = new AWSTestUtils();
-        this.configUtils = new ConfigUtils("test.properties");
     }
 
     @After
@@ -85,6 +84,7 @@ public class TestRecordsApiAcceptance extends RecordsApiAcceptanceTests {
 		// Hence the Assert Statement is marked not to be 200.
 		// More details - https://community.opengroup.org/osdu/platform/system/storage/-/issues/61
 		assertNotEquals(200, response.getStatus());
+		assertEquals(404, response.getStatus());
 
 	}
 
diff --git a/testing/storage-test-aws/src/test/resources/test.properties b/testing/storage-test-aws/src/test/resources/test.properties
deleted file mode 100644
index 231a0221e82db68746d0f9739b4b5c16d0cf14a5..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/testing/storage-test-aws/src/test/resources/test.properties
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
-
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-
-#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-enableEncodedSpecialCharactersInURL=true
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