AWS-ECR orb not find my access_key_id

I’m using circleci ECR orb to build and push my image to amazon’s ECR.
but for some reason it is not finding my aws_access_key_id.
Everything I’ve tried didn’t work

I’m getting the following error
aws configure set aws_access_key_id
$AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
–profile circleci

The config profile (********) could not be found

I do have my EV set.