diff --git a/group_vars/aws_node_local.yml b/group_vars/aws_node_local.yml
index 94a9325..5fc06f5 100644
--- a/group_vars/aws_node_local.yml
+++ b/group_vars/aws_node_local.yml
@@ -55,7 +55,8 @@ atl_product_logs:
     *logs_default
   stash:
     *logs_default
-  crowd: []
+  crowd:
+    *logs_default
 
 
 #  The following are imports from the environment. These are generally
diff --git a/roles/create_backups/molecule/default/molecule.yml b/roles/create_backups/molecule/default/molecule.yml
index c6a6d26..3261663 100644
--- a/roles/create_backups/molecule/default/molecule.yml
+++ b/roles/create_backups/molecule/default/molecule.yml
@@ -8,8 +8,25 @@ lint:
 platforms:
   - name: amazon_linux2
     image: amazonlinux:2
-  - name: ubuntu_lts
-    image: ubuntu:bionic
+#
+# Temporarily (1st April 2020) removing ubuntu as a test platform.
+# The atlassian-slingshot debian (Ubuntu) repository is at present
+# malformed and is currently missing its 'Release' file. As a result
+# when this test executes and tries to pull the `ubuntu_lts` archive
+# (see ubuntu.yml task) it fails with the following error:
+#
+# "The repository 'https://packages.atlassian.com/atlassian-slingshot-deb
+# stable Release' does not have a Release file."
+#
+# See: https://bulldog.internal.atlassian.com/browse/DCD-964 which has
+# been raised to resolve this issue and fix the Ubuntu Slingshot
+# distribution
+#
+# TODO: Activate the config below (un-comment) once the issue described above
+# has been resolved.
+#
+#  - name: ubuntu_lts
+#    image: ubuntu:bionic
 provisioner:
   name: ansible
   lint: