diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index dd4d4f69a..f103f1ad2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,17 +11,6 @@ GitOps integration, secrets management, production and development Kubernetes en
 - [Destroy](#destroy)
 - [Available Commands]()
 
-## Setup
-
-The setup is extremely simple, create a `.env` file in the root folder, and add the following variables:
-
-| Variable           | example          |
-|--------------------|------------------|
-| AWS_PROFILE        | default          |
-| CLOUD_PROVIDER=aws | aws              |
-| HOSTED_ZONE_NAME   | example.com      |
-| ADMIN_EMAIL        | john@example.com |
-
 ## Start the container
 
 We run everything on isolation with Docker, for that, start the container with:
diff --git a/cmd/info.go b/cmd/info.go
index 443954e6c..5702531fb 100755
--- a/cmd/info.go
+++ b/cmd/info.go
@@ -44,10 +44,6 @@ var infoCmd = &cobra.Command{
 		if err != nil {
 			log.Panic(err)
 		}
-		err = configs.CheckEnvironment()
-		if err != nil {
-			log.Panic(err)
-		}
 		fmt.Printf("----------- \n")
 
 		fmt.Println(reports.StyleMessage(infoSummary.String()))
diff --git a/cmd/init.go b/cmd/init.go
index b46a6eda0..07810d806 100644
--- a/cmd/init.go
+++ b/cmd/init.go
@@ -211,6 +211,13 @@ func init() {
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Panic(err)
 	}
+
+	initCmd.Flags().String("profile", "", "the profile to provision the cloud resources in")
+	err = initCmd.MarkFlagRequired("profile")
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Panic(err)
+	}
+
 	initCmd.Flags().Bool("clean", false, "delete any local kubefirst content ~/.kubefirst, ~/.k1")
 
 	log.SetPrefix("LOG: ")
diff --git a/configs/config.go b/configs/config.go
index 471d0a6b4..69f9b9b82 100644
--- a/configs/config.go
+++ b/configs/config.go
@@ -75,5 +75,13 @@ func ReadConfig() *Config {
 
 	config.InstallerEmail = "kubefirst-bot@kubefirst.com"
 
+	// If the AWS_SDK_LOAD_CONFIG environment variable is set to a truthy value the shared config file (~/.aws/config)
+	// will also be loaded in addition to the shared credentials file (~/.aws/credentials).
+	// AWS SDK client will take it in advance
+	err = os.Setenv("AWS_SDK_LOAD_CONFIG", "1")
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Panicf("unable to set AWS_SDK_LOAD_CONFIG enviroment value, error is: %v", err)
+	}
+
 	return &config
 }
diff --git a/configs/envvars.go b/configs/envvars.go
deleted file mode 100755
index f486b7603..000000000
--- a/configs/envvars.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-package configs
-
-import (
-	"fmt"
-	"log"
-	"os"
-)
-
-// CheckEnvironment validate if the required environment variable values are set.
-func CheckEnvironment() error {
-
-	requiredEnvValues := map[string]string{
-		"AWS_PROFILE": os.Getenv("AWS_PROFILE"),
-	}
-
-	for k, v := range requiredEnvValues {
-		if v == "" {
-			errorMsg := fmt.Sprintf("%s is not set", k)
-			log.Printf(errorMsg)
-			return fmt.Errorf(errorMsg)
-		}
-	}
-
-	log.Println("all environment variables are set")
-
-	return nil
-}
diff --git a/docker-compose.yaml b/docker-compose.yaml
index 55ea902e3..befbca0f0 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yaml
+++ b/docker-compose.yaml
@@ -15,6 +15,4 @@ services:
       - "8200:8200" # Vault
     volumes:
       - ./:/home/developer/kubefirst
-    env_file:
-      - .env
     command: sh -c "./scripts/kubefirst-dev.sh"
diff --git a/internal/aws/aws.go b/internal/aws/aws.go
index a8b4b8f46..580866067 100644
--- a/internal/aws/aws.go
+++ b/internal/aws/aws.go
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/sts"
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/awserr"
+	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/credentials/stscreds"
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
 	"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/s3"
 	"github.com/cip8/autoname"
@@ -311,12 +312,20 @@ func DestroyBucket(bucketName string) {
 }
 
 func GetAWSSession() *session.Session {
-	sess, err := session.NewSession(&aws.Config{
-		Region: aws.String(viper.GetString("aws.region"))},
-	)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Panicf("failed to get session ", err.Error())
-	}
+	//sess, err := session.NewSession(&aws.Config{
+	//	Region: aws.String(viper.GetString("aws.region"))},
+	//)
+	sess := session.Must(session.NewSessionWithOptions(session.Options{
+		Config: aws.Config{
+			Region: aws.String(viper.GetString("aws.region")),
+		},
+		Profile: viper.GetString("aws.profile"),
+
+		AssumeRoleTokenProvider: stscreds.StdinTokenProvider,
+	}))
+	//if err != nil {
+	//	log.Panicf("failed to get session ", err.Error())
+	//}
 	return sess
 }