diff --git a/roles/asg_management/defaults/main.yml b/roles/asg_management/defaults/main.yml
index 0c5dbd46..2b3b3f59 100644
--- a/roles/asg_management/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/roles/asg_management/defaults/main.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ asg_management:
   name: "" # if the deploy is on an ASG put the name here
   #target_group_name: "example" # matches the ASG name by default, specify if your TargetGroup name is different (for example due to the 32-char name length limit in AWS)
   refresh_asg_instances: true # runs only if squashFS image unmount failed and this set to true.
-  #profile: "example" # optional, the boto profile name to use if not the system default
+  profile: "{{ lookup('env','AWS_PROFILE') | default(omit) }}" # the boto profile name to use if not the system default
   region: "eu-west-1"
   suspend_processes: "Launch Terminate HealthCheck" # space separated string, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/autoscaling/ec2/userguide/as-suspend-resume-processes.html
   pause: 10 # localhost ping count, to wait before polling the AWS API again for instance statuses (instead of ansible 'pause' module which seems to be buggy and hangs sometimes)
diff --git a/roles/deploy_code/tasks/cleanup.yml b/roles/deploy_code/tasks/cleanup.yml
index df3d1e31..c4e918c0 100644
--- a/roles/deploy_code/tasks/cleanup.yml
+++ b/roles/deploy_code/tasks/cleanup.yml
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
               amazon.aws.autoscaling_group:
                 name: "{{ asg_management.name }}"
                 region: "{{ asg_management.region }}"
-                profile: "{{ asg_management.profile | default(aws_profile | default(omit)) }}"
+                profile: "{{ asg_management.profile | default(omit) }}"
                 suspend_processes: []
               delegate_to: localhost
               run_once: true
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@
               amazon.aws.autoscaling_instance_refresh:
                 name: "{{ asg_management.name }}"
                 region: "{{ asg_management.region }}"
-                profile: "{{ asg_management.profile | default(aws_profile | default(omit)) }}"
+                profile: "{{ asg_management.profile | default(omit) }}"
                 strategy: Rolling
                 preferences:
                   min_healthy_percentage: 51