diff --git a/plugins/hydra_ray_launcher/examples/upload_download/conf/config.yaml b/plugins/hydra_ray_launcher/examples/upload_download/conf/config.yaml
index 5a5fcfe6de3..5f1925ad026 100644
--- a/plugins/hydra_ray_launcher/examples/upload_download/conf/config.yaml
+++ b/plugins/hydra_ray_launcher/examples/upload_download/conf/config.yaml
@@ -1,26 +1,5 @@
 defaults:
-  - override hydra/launcher: ray_aws
-
+  - override hydra/launcher: custom_ray_aws
 
 random_seed: 0
 checkpoint_path: checkpoint
-
-hydra:
-  launcher:
-    sync_up:
-      # source dir is relative in this case, assuming you are running from
-      # <project_root>/hydra/plugins/hydra_ray_launcher/example
-      # absolute path is also supported.
-      source_dir: '.'
-      # we leave target_dir to be null
-      # as a result the files will be synced to a temp dir on remote cluster.
-      # the temp dir will be cleaned up after the jobs are done.
-      # recommend to leave target_dir to be null if you are syncing code/artifacts to remote cluster so you don't need
-      # configure $PYTHONPATH on remote cluster
-      include: ['model', '*.py']
-      # No need to sync up config files.
-      exclude: ['*']
-    sync_down:
-      include: ['*.pt', '*/']
-      # No need to sync down config files.
-      exclude: ['*']
diff --git a/plugins/hydra_ray_launcher/examples/upload_download/conf/hydra/launcher/custom_ray_aws.yaml b/plugins/hydra_ray_launcher/examples/upload_download/conf/hydra/launcher/custom_ray_aws.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..04f4a101686
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/hydra_ray_launcher/examples/upload_download/conf/hydra/launcher/custom_ray_aws.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+defaults:
+  - ray_aws
+
+sync_up:
+  # source dir is relative in this case, assuming you are running from
+  # <project_root>/hydra/plugins/hydra_ray_launcher/example
+  # absolute path is also supported.
+  source_dir: '.'
+  # we leave target_dir to be null
+  # as a result the files will be synced to a temp dir on remote cluster.
+  # the temp dir will be cleaned up after the jobs are done.
+  # recommend to leave target_dir to be null if you are syncing code/artifacts to remote cluster so you don't need
+  # configure $PYTHONPATH on remote cluster
+  include: ['model', '*.py']
+  # No need to sync up config files.
+  exclude: ['*']
+sync_down:
+  include: ['*.pt', '*/']
+  # No need to sync down config files.
+  exclude: ['*']