diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 59c270c5..5d11202e 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ stages:
     entrypoint: ["/bin/sh", "-c"]
   script:
     - aws --version
+    - echo "🧹 Cleaning up newline characters in AWS credentials..."
+    - export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$(echo $AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID | tr -d '\r\n')
+    - export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$(echo $AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY | tr -d '\r\n')
     - echo "🚀 Deploying to s3://$S3_BUCKET in region $AWS_REGION"
     - aws s3 sync ./out "s3://$S3_BUCKET" --delete --region "$AWS_REGION" --endpoint-url "https://s3.ap-southeast-3.amazonaws.com"
     - |