diff --git a/packages/amplify-codegen-e2e-tests/src/gen2-codegen-tests-base/commands.ts b/packages/amplify-codegen-e2e-tests/src/gen2-codegen-tests-base/commands.ts
index 0b1ba6a5f..7f0e87562 100644
--- a/packages/amplify-codegen-e2e-tests/src/gen2-codegen-tests-base/commands.ts
+++ b/packages/amplify-codegen-e2e-tests/src/gen2-codegen-tests-base/commands.ts
@@ -92,8 +92,15 @@ export const sandboxDeploy = async (cwd: string, props: Gen2DeployProps = {}): P
   };
 
   // Run sandbox deployment
+
+  /**
+   * For sandbox deployment, the nested ampx binary is retrieved instead of using npx
+   * On windows, the Ctrl-C signal is not returned correctly from npx binary, whose code is 1 and will fail nexpect check
+   * Therefore, the ampx binary is used for sandbox deployment instead of npx
+   */
+  const ampxCli = getAmpxPath(cwd)
   await
-    spawn(getNpxPath(), ['ampx', 'sandbox'], commandOptions)
+    spawn(ampxCli, ['sandbox'], commandOptions)
       .wait('Watching for file changes...')
       .sendCtrlC()
       .runAsync();