diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/.eslintrc.js b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/.eslintrc.js
index 7525de988518a..ca7a7961c60ee 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/.eslintrc.js
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/.eslintrc.js
@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ const enableNoThrowDefaultErrorIn = [
   'aws-ssmincidents',
   'aws-ssmquicksetup',
   'aws-synthetics',
+  'aws-s3-assets',
+  'aws-s3-deployment',
+  'aws-s3-notifications',
+  'aws-s3express',
+  'aws-s3objectlambda',
+  'aws-s3outposts',
+  'aws-s3tables',
 ];
 baseConfig.overrides.push({
   files: enableNoThrowDefaultErrorIn.map(m => `./${m}/lib/**`),
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-assets/lib/asset.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-assets/lib/asset.ts
index 6f07fffa6d9c0..945d45ae1206e 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-assets/lib/asset.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-assets/lib/asset.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import * as iam from '../../aws-iam';
 import * as kms from '../../aws-kms';
 import * as s3 from '../../aws-s3';
 import * as cdk from '../../core';
+import { ValidationError } from '../../core/lib/errors';
 import * as cxapi from '../../cx-api';
 
 export interface AssetOptions extends CopyOptions, cdk.FileCopyOptions, cdk.AssetOptions {
@@ -143,7 +144,7 @@ export class Asset extends Construct implements cdk.IAsset {
     super(scope, id);
 
     if (!props.path) {
-      throw new Error('Asset path cannot be empty');
+      throw new ValidationError('Asset path cannot be empty', this);
     }
 
     this.isBundled = props.bundling != null;
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-assets/lib/compat.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-assets/lib/compat.ts
index b5eac2276ed94..35f10c0ba1e72 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-assets/lib/compat.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-assets/lib/compat.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { FollowMode } from '../../assets';
 import { SymlinkFollowMode } from '../../core';
+import { UnscopedValidationError } from '../../core/lib/errors';
 
 export function toSymlinkFollow(follow?: FollowMode): SymlinkFollowMode | undefined {
   if (!follow) {
@@ -12,6 +13,6 @@ export function toSymlinkFollow(follow?: FollowMode): SymlinkFollowMode | undefi
     case FollowMode.BLOCK_EXTERNAL: return SymlinkFollowMode.BLOCK_EXTERNAL;
     case FollowMode.EXTERNAL: return SymlinkFollowMode.EXTERNAL;
     default:
-      throw new Error(`unknown follow mode: ${follow}`);
+      throw new UnscopedValidationError(`unknown follow mode: ${follow}`);
   }
 }
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-assets/test/custom-synthesis.test.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-assets/test/custom-synthesis.test.ts
index b78b52bc131ec..6074ea50b9b93 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-assets/test/custom-synthesis.test.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-assets/test/custom-synthesis.test.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import * as path from 'path';
 import { Template } from '../../assertions';
 import { StackSynthesizer, FileAssetSource, FileAssetLocation, DockerImageAssetSource, DockerImageAssetLocation, ISynthesisSession, App, Stack, AssetManifestBuilder, CfnParameter, CfnResource } from '../../core';
+import { UnscopedValidationError } from '../../core/lib/errors';
 import { AssetManifestArtifact } from '../../cx-api';
 import { Asset } from '../lib';
 
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ class CustomSynthesizer extends StackSynthesizer {
 
   addDockerImageAsset(asset: DockerImageAssetSource): DockerImageAssetLocation {
     void(asset);
-    throw new Error('Docker images are not supported here');
+    throw new UnscopedValidationError('Docker images are not supported here');
   }
 
   synthesize(session: ISynthesisSession): void {
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/bucket-deployment.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/bucket-deployment.ts
index 4fb7d0b40cae6..9a8348c04a95a 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/bucket-deployment.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/bucket-deployment.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import * as lambda from '../../aws-lambda';
 import * as logs from '../../aws-logs';
 import * as s3 from '../../aws-s3';
 import * as cdk from '../../core';
+import { ValidationError } from '../../core/lib/errors';
 import { BucketDeploymentSingletonFunction } from '../../custom-resource-handlers/dist/aws-s3-deployment/bucket-deployment-provider.generated';
 import { AwsCliLayer } from '../../lambda-layer-awscli';
 
@@ -304,17 +305,17 @@ export class BucketDeployment extends Construct {
 
     if (props.distributionPaths) {
       if (!props.distribution) {
-        throw new Error('Distribution must be specified if distribution paths are specified');
+        throw new ValidationError('Distribution must be specified if distribution paths are specified', this);
       }
       if (!cdk.Token.isUnresolved(props.distributionPaths)) {
         if (!props.distributionPaths.every(distributionPath => cdk.Token.isUnresolved(distributionPath) || distributionPath.startsWith('/'))) {
-          throw new Error('Distribution paths must start with "/"');
+          throw new ValidationError('Distribution paths must start with "/"', this);
         }
       }
     }
 
     if (props.useEfs && !props.vpc) {
-      throw new Error('Vpc must be specified if useEfs is set');
+      throw new ValidationError('Vpc must be specified if useEfs is set', this);
     }
 
     this.destinationBucket = props.destinationBucket;
@@ -376,7 +377,7 @@ export class BucketDeployment extends Construct {
     });
 
     const handlerRole = handler.role;
-    if (!handlerRole) { throw new Error('lambda.SingletonFunction should have created a Role'); }
+    if (!handlerRole) { throw new ValidationError('lambda.SingletonFunction should have created a Role', this); }
     this.handlerRole = handlerRole;
 
     this.sources = props.sources.map((source: ISource) => source.bind(this, { handlerRole: this.handlerRole }));
@@ -455,7 +456,7 @@ export class BucketDeployment extends Construct {
     // '/this/is/a/random/key/prefix/that/is/a/lot/of/characters/do/we/think/that/it/will/ever/be/this/long?????'
     // better to throw an error here than wait for CloudFormation to fail
     if (!cdk.Token.isUnresolved(tagKey) && tagKey.length > 128) {
-      throw new Error('The BucketDeployment construct requires that the "destinationKeyPrefix" be <=104 characters.');
+      throw new ValidationError('The BucketDeployment construct requires that the "destinationKeyPrefix" be <=104 characters.', this);
     }
 
     /*
@@ -567,7 +568,7 @@ export class BucketDeployment extends Construct {
     // configurations since we have a singleton.
     if (memoryLimit) {
       if (cdk.Token.isUnresolved(memoryLimit)) {
-        throw new Error("Can't use tokens when specifying 'memoryLimit' since we use it to identify the singleton custom resource handler.");
+        throw new ValidationError("Can't use tokens when specifying 'memoryLimit' since we use it to identify the singleton custom resource handler.", this);
       }
 
       uuid += `-${memoryLimit.toString()}MiB`;
@@ -578,7 +579,7 @@ export class BucketDeployment extends Construct {
     // configurations since we have a singleton.
     if (ephemeralStorageSize) {
       if (ephemeralStorageSize.isUnresolved()) {
-        throw new Error("Can't use tokens when specifying 'ephemeralStorageSize' since we use it to identify the singleton custom resource handler.");
+        throw new ValidationError("Can't use tokens when specifying 'ephemeralStorageSize' since we use it to identify the singleton custom resource handler.", this);
       }
 
       uuid += `-${ephemeralStorageSize.toMebibytes().toString()}MiB`;
@@ -660,7 +661,7 @@ export class DeployTimeSubstitutedFile extends BucketDeployment {
 
   constructor(scope: Construct, id: string, props: DeployTimeSubstitutedFileProps) {
     if (!fs.existsSync(props.source)) {
-      throw new Error(`No file found at 'source' path ${props.source}`);
+      throw new ValidationError(`No file found at 'source' path ${props.source}`, scope);
     }
     // Makes substitutions on the file
     let fileData = fs.readFileSync(props.source, 'utf-8');
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/render-data.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/render-data.ts
index 28f588d156d97..f04b0a9600cc0 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/render-data.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/render-data.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { Construct } from 'constructs';
 import { Stack } from '../../core';
+import { ValidationError } from '../../core/lib/errors';
 
 export interface Content {
   readonly text: string;
@@ -22,7 +23,7 @@ export function renderData(scope: Construct, data: string): Content {
   }
 
   if (typeof(obj) !== 'object') {
-    throw new Error(`Unexpected: after resolve() data must either be a string or a CloudFormation intrinsic. Got: ${JSON.stringify(obj)}`);
+    throw new ValidationError(`Unexpected: after resolve() data must either be a string or a CloudFormation intrinsic. Got: ${JSON.stringify(obj)}`, scope);
   }
 
   let markerIndex = 0;
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ export function renderData(scope: Construct, data: string): Content {
     const parts = fnJoin[1];
 
     if (sep !== '') {
-      throw new Error(`Unexpected "Fn::Join", expecting separator to be an empty string but got "${sep}"`);
+      throw new ValidationError(`Unexpected "Fn::Join", expecting separator to be an empty string but got "${sep}"`, scope);
     }
 
     for (const part of parts) {
@@ -49,13 +50,13 @@ export function renderData(scope: Construct, data: string): Content {
         continue;
       }
 
-      throw new Error(`Unexpected "Fn::Join" part, expecting string or object but got ${typeof (part)}`);
+      throw new ValidationError(`Unexpected "Fn::Join" part, expecting string or object but got ${typeof (part)}`, scope);
     }
 
   } else if (obj.Ref || obj['Fn::GetAtt'] || obj['Fn::Select']) {
     addMarker(obj);
   } else {
-    throw new Error('Unexpected: Expecting `resolve()` to return "Fn::Join", "Ref" or "Fn::GetAtt"');
+    throw new ValidationError('Unexpected: Expecting `resolve()` to return "Fn::Join", "Ref" or "Fn::GetAtt"', scope);
   }
 
   function addMarker(part: Ref | GetAtt | FnSelect) {
@@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ export function renderData(scope: Construct, data: string): Content {
     const acceptedCfnFns = ['Ref', 'Fn::GetAtt', 'Fn::Select'];
     if (keys.length !== 1 || !acceptedCfnFns.includes(keys[0])) {
       const stringifiedAcceptedCfnFns = acceptedCfnFns.map((fn) => `"${fn}"`).join(' or ');
-      throw new Error(`Invalid CloudFormation reference. Key must start with any of ${stringifiedAcceptedCfnFns}. Got ${JSON.stringify(part)}`);
+      throw new ValidationError(`Invalid CloudFormation reference. Key must start with any of ${stringifiedAcceptedCfnFns}. Got ${JSON.stringify(part)}`, scope);
     }
 
     const marker = `<<marker:0xbaba:${markerIndex++}>>`;
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/source.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/source.ts
index c6815194aa843..857e0092371d7 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/source.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/lib/source.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import * as iam from '../../aws-iam';
 import * as s3 from '../../aws-s3';
 import * as s3_assets from '../../aws-s3-assets';
 import { FileSystem, Stack } from '../../core';
+import { ValidationError } from '../../core/lib/errors';
 
 /**
  * Source information.
@@ -98,9 +99,9 @@ export class Source {
    */
   public static bucket(bucket: s3.IBucket, zipObjectKey: string): ISource {
     return {
-      bind: (_: Construct, context?: DeploymentSourceContext) => {
+      bind: (scope: Construct, context?: DeploymentSourceContext) => {
         if (!context) {
-          throw new Error('To use a Source.bucket(), context must be provided');
+          throw new ValidationError('To use a Source.bucket(), context must be provided', scope);
         }
 
         bucket.grantRead(context.handlerRole);
@@ -121,7 +122,7 @@ export class Source {
     return {
       bind(scope: Construct, context?: DeploymentSourceContext): SourceConfig {
         if (!context) {
-          throw new Error('To use a Source.asset(), context must be provided');
+          throw new ValidationError('To use a Source.asset(), context must be provided', scope);
         }
 
         let id = 1;
@@ -133,7 +134,7 @@ export class Source {
           ...options,
         });
         if (!asset.isZipArchive) {
-          throw new Error('Asset path must be either a .zip file or a directory');
+          throw new ValidationError('Asset path must be either a .zip file or a directory', scope);
         }
         asset.grantRead(context.handlerRole);
 
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/test/bucket-deployment.test.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/test/bucket-deployment.test.ts
index 886102419b05f..8aa5bea01e1f1 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/test/bucket-deployment.test.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-deployment/test/bucket-deployment.test.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import * as logs from '../../aws-logs';
 import * as s3 from '../../aws-s3';
 import * as sns from '../../aws-sns';
 import * as cdk from '../../core';
+import { UnscopedValidationError } from '../../core/lib/errors';
 import * as cxapi from '../../cx-api';
 import * as s3deploy from '../lib';
 
@@ -1678,7 +1679,7 @@ function readDataFile(casm: cxapi.CloudAssembly, relativePath: string): string {
     }
   }
 
-  throw new Error(`File ${relativePath} not found in any of the assets of the assembly`);
+  throw new UnscopedValidationError(`File ${relativePath} not found in any of the assets of the assembly`);
 }
 
 test('DeployTimeSubstitutedFile allows custom role to be supplied', () => {
diff --git a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-notifications/lib/lambda.ts b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-notifications/lib/lambda.ts
index e6159ff8c22aa..45a7a44773f63 100644
--- a/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-notifications/lib/lambda.ts
+++ b/packages/aws-cdk-lib/aws-s3-notifications/lib/lambda.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import * as iam from '../../aws-iam';
 import * as lambda from '../../aws-lambda';
 import * as s3 from '../../aws-s3';
 import { CfnResource, Names, Stack } from '../../core';
+import { ValidationError } from '../../core/lib/errors';
 
 /**
  * Use a Lambda function as a bucket notification destination
@@ -11,12 +12,12 @@ export class LambdaDestination implements s3.IBucketNotificationDestination {
   constructor(private readonly fn: lambda.IFunction) {
   }
 
-  public bind(_scope: Construct, bucket: s3.IBucket): s3.BucketNotificationDestinationConfig {
+  public bind(scope: Construct, bucket: s3.IBucket): s3.BucketNotificationDestinationConfig {
     const permissionId = `AllowBucketNotificationsTo${Names.nodeUniqueId(this.fn.permissionsNode)}`;
 
     if (!(bucket instanceof Construct)) {
-      throw new Error(`LambdaDestination for function ${Names.nodeUniqueId(this.fn.permissionsNode)} can only be configured on a
-        bucket construct (Bucket ${bucket.bucketName})`);
+      throw new ValidationError(`LambdaDestination for function ${Names.nodeUniqueId(this.fn.permissionsNode)} can only be configured on a
+        bucket construct (Bucket ${bucket.bucketName})`, scope);
     }
 
     if (bucket.node.tryFindChild(permissionId) === undefined) {