diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java
index 4b0c20880511d..7bfbf2c5ebe61 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java
@@ -369,8 +369,8 @@ protected static S3AStorageStatistics createStorageStatistics() {
   @Retries.RetryTranslated
   protected void verifyBucketExists()
       throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
-    if (!invoker.retry("doesBucketExist", bucket, true,
-        () -> s3.doesBucketExist(bucket))) {
+    if (!invoker.retry("doesBucketExistV2", bucket, true,
+        () -> s3.doesBucketExistV2(bucket))) {
       throw new FileNotFoundException("Bucket " + bucket + " does not exist");
     }
   }