diff --git a/docker/config/.env.aws b/docker/config/.env.aws
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..10dbc3241
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/config/.env.aws
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# You can add your AWS environment variables here
+# We keep that file separate from .env.localrunner so that it can be updated by the startup script
diff --git a/docker/docker-compose-local.yml b/docker/docker-compose-local.yml
index 6fda29d0c..6bd7af1bd 100644
--- a/docker/docker-compose-local.yml
+++ b/docker/docker-compose-local.yml
@@ -46,3 +46,4 @@ services:
             retries: 3
         env_file:
             - ./config/.env.localrunner
+            - ./config/.env.aws