diff --git a/awscli/examples/cloudformation/validate-template.rst b/awscli/examples/cloudformation/validate-template.rst
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 **To validate an AWS CloudFormation template**
 
-The following ``validate-template`` command validates the ``sampletemplate.json`` template::
+The following ``validate-template`` command validates the ``sampletemplate.json`` template in the Amazon S3 bucket named ``sample``::
 
-  aws cloudformation validate-template --template-body file:////home//local//test//sampletemplate.json
+  aws cloudformation validate-template --template-url https://s3.amazonaws.com/sample/sample.template
 
 Output::