diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 9ff13529823..b0cf4766a6a 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ jobs:
             # ability to query ECR images
             ecr_login
             set +eu
+            set -x
             # convert to json, run a python script, write out json (which is a readable as YAML)
             pip install PyYAML
             build-system/scripts/generate_circleci_config.py 
diff --git a/build-system/scripts/ecr_login b/build-system/scripts/ecr_login
index 5d9e6671e59..65180dc1ad6 100755
--- a/build-system/scripts/ecr_login
+++ b/build-system/scripts/ecr_login
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -euo pipefail
 REGION=${1:-$ECR_REGION}
+aws ecr get-login-password --region $REGION
 aws ecr get-login-password --region $REGION \
   | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin $AWS_ACCOUNT.dkr.ecr.$REGION.amazonaws.com 2> /dev/null
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