diff --git a/.gitlab/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 8f317eed1..904f6c5cf 100644
--- a/.gitlab/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ deploy node for linux amd64:
     - AMI=$(aws ssm get-parameters --names /aws/service/ami-amazon-linux-latest/amzn2-ami-hvm-x86_64-ebs --query 'Parameters[0].[Value]' --output text --profile $PROFILE)
     - SECURITY_GROUP=$(aws ec2 describe-security-groups --filter Name=vpc-id,Values=vpc-03a4ba3d5b7c8f978 --query 'SecurityGroups[*].[GroupId]' --output text --profile $PROFILE)
     - SUBNET_ID=$(aws ec2 describe-subnets --filters 'Name=vpc-id,Values=vpc-03a4ba3d5b7c8f978' 'Name=availability-zone,Values=us-east-2a' --query 'Subnets[0].SubnetId' --output text --profile $PROFILE)
-    - aws ec2 run-instances --image-id $AMI --instance-type $INSTANCE --security-group-ids $SECURITY_GROUP --subnet-id $SUBNET_ID --key-name gitlab-featurebase-dev --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=instance,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=linux-amd64-node}]' --profile $PROFILE --user-data file://.gitlab/cloud-init.sh
+    - aws ec2 run-instances --image-id $AMI --instance-type $INSTANCE --security-group-ids $SECURITY_GROUP --subnet-id $SUBNET_ID --key-name gitlab-featurebase-dev --tag-specifications 'ResourceType=instance,Tags=[{Key=Name,Value=linux-amd64-node}]' --profile $PROFILE --user-data file://.gitlab/cloud-init.sh --iam-instance-profile Name=featurebase-dev-ssm
     - sleep 120 # Need to wait for the EC2 instance to launch and run the initialization commands passed through user-data
     - PUBLIC_IP=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --filters 'Name=tag:Name, Values=linux-amd64-node' 'Name=instance-state-name, Values=running' --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].PublicIpAddress' --output text --profile $PROFILE)
     - echo $PUBLIC_IP
@@ -228,10 +228,7 @@ deploy node for linux amd64:
     - echo $INSTANCE_ID > linux-amd64-instance.txt
     - scp  -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i gitlab-featurebase-dev.pem featurebase_linux_amd64 ec2-user@$PUBLIC_IP:.
     - scp  -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -i gitlab-featurebase-dev.pem .gitlab/featurebase.conf .gitlab/featurebase.service ec2-user@$PUBLIC_IP:.
-    - aws ec2 associate-iam-instance-profile --instance-id $INSTANCE_ID --iam-instance-profile Name=featurebase-dev-ssm
-    - sleep 240 # needed to allow enough time for the ssm to take into effect before the next command can get called
     - aws ssm send-command --document-name "AWS-RunShellScript" --instance-ids $INSTANCE_ID --cli-input-json file://.gitlab/configureFeatureBase.json --profile $PROFILE --region us-east-2
-    - sleep 120 
   needs:
     - job: build for linux amd64
   artifacts: