diff --git a/.gitlab/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 5ab7d3216..0dda19409 100644
--- a/.gitlab/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ deploy node for linux amd64:
     - SECURITY_GROUP=$(aws ec2 describe-security-groups --filters Name=vpc-id,Values=vpc-03a4ba3d5b7c8f978 Name=group-name,Values=default --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 $PROFILE --user-data file://.gitlab/cloud-init.sh --iam-instance-profile Name=featurebase-dev-ssm > config.json
-    - INSTANCE_ID=$(jq '.Instances | .[] |.InstanceId' config.json) 
+    - INSTANCE_ID=$(jq '.Instances | .[] |.InstanceId' config.json | tr -d '"') 
     - echo $INSTANCE_ID > linux-amd64-instance.txt
     - sleep 120 # Need to wait for the EC2 instance to launch and run the initialization commands passed through user-data
     - PUBLIC_IP=$(aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids $INSTANCE_ID --filters 'Name=instance-state-name, Values=running' --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].PublicIpAddress' --output text --profile $PROFILE)