diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 9e90186f4cda41f2959477d63290b2f465c7ff4d..c6332261a24060b1135c87873dc2449c1381706a 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -94,10 +94,12 @@ demo:aws-qa:
     name: qa/$PACKAGE_NAME
     url: http://52.211.238.137/
   script:
+    - export AWS_REGION="eu-west-1"
+    - export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
+    - export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
     - apk --no-cache add --update python python-dev py-pip
     - pip install ecs-deploy
-    - eval $(aws ecr get-login --no-include-email --region eu-west-1 | sed 's|https://||')
-    - ecs deploy --region eu-west-1 ${CLUSTER_NAME} ${IMAGE_REPO}:${CI_COMMIT_SHA} --tag ${CI_COMMIT_SHA}
+    - ecs deploy --region ${AWS_REGION} ${CLUSTER_NAME} ${IMAGE_REPO}:${CI_COMMIT_SHA} --tag ${CI_COMMIT_SHA}
 
 demo:staging:
   image: $IMAGE_ORG/$IMAGE_NAME:$CI_COMMIT_SHA