diff --git a/scripts/publish_prod.sh b/scripts/publish_prod.sh
index e8838c5a..f88ac5e2 100755
--- a/scripts/publish_prod.sh
+++ b/scripts/publish_prod.sh
@@ -31,11 +31,6 @@ else
     NEW_VERSION=$1
 fi
 
-# Ensure AWS access before proceeding
-ddsaml2aws login -a govcloud-us1-fed-human-engineering
-AWS_PROFILE=govcloud-us1-fed-human-engineering aws sts get-caller-identity
-aws-vault exec sso-prod-engineering -- aws sts get-caller-identity
-
 # Ensure pypi registry access
 read -p "Do you have access to PyPI (y/n)?" CONT
 if [ "$CONT" != "y" ]; then
@@ -52,11 +47,17 @@ if [ "$CONT" != "y" ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-echo
-echo "Replacing version in pyproject.toml"
-echo
+echo "Answer 'n' if already done in a PR"
+read -p "Update pyproject.toml version? (y/n)?" CONT
+if [ "$CONT" != "y" ]; then
+    echo "Skipping updating package.json version"
+else
+    echo
+    echo "Replacing version in pyproject.toml"
+    echo
 
-poetry version ${NEW_VERSION}
+    poetry version ${NEW_VERSION}
+fi
 
 echo
 echo "Building layers..."
@@ -66,33 +67,57 @@ echo
 echo "Signing layers for commercial AWS regions"
 aws-vault exec sso-prod-engineering -- ./scripts/sign_layers.sh prod
 
-echo
-echo "Publishing layers to commercial AWS regions"
-VERSION=$LAYER_VERSION aws-vault exec sso-prod-engineering -- ./scripts/publish_layers.sh
+echo "Answer 'n' if GitLab already did this"
+read -p "Deploy layers to commercial AWS (y/n)?" CONT
+if [ "$CONT" != "y" ]; then
+    echo "Skipping deployment to commercial AWS"
+else
+    echo "Ensuring you have access to the production AWS account"
+    aws-vault exec sso-prod-engineering -- aws sts get-caller-identity
+
+    echo
+    echo "Publishing layers to commercial AWS regions"
+    VERSION=$LAYER_VERSION aws-vault exec sso-prod-engineering --no-session -- ./scripts/publish_layers.sh
+fi
+read -p "Deploy layers to GovCloud AWS (y/n)?" CONT
+if [ "$CONT" != "y" ]; then
+    echo "Skipping deployment to GovCloud AWS"
+else
+    echo "Ensuring you have access to the AWS GovCloud account"
+    ddsaml2aws login -a govcloud-us1-fed-human-engineering
+    AWS_PROFILE=govcloud-us1-fed-human-engineering aws sts get-caller-identity
 
-echo "Publishing layers to GovCloud AWS regions"
-ddsaml2aws login -a govcloud-us1-fed-human-engineering
-VERSION=$LAYER_VERSION AWS_PROFILE=govcloud-us1-fed-human-engineering ./scripts/publish_layers.sh
+    echo "Publishing layers to GovCloud AWS regions"
+    ddsaml2aws login -a govcloud-us1-fed-human-engineering
+    VERSION=$LAYER_VERSION AWS_PROFILE=govcloud-us1-fed-human-engineering ./scripts/publish_layers.sh
+fi
 
+echo "Answer 'n' if GitLab already did this"
 read -p "Ready to publish $NEW_VERSION to PyPI (y/n)?" CONT
 if [ "$CONT" != "y" ]; then
-    echo "Exiting"
-    exit 1
+    echo "Skipping publishing to PyPI"
+else
+    echo
+    echo "Publishing to https://pypi.org/project/datadog-lambda/"
+    ./scripts/pypi.sh
 fi
 
-echo
-echo "Publishing to https://pypi.org/project/datadog-lambda/"
-./scripts/pypi.sh
 
-echo
-echo 'Publishing updates to github'
-git commit pyproject.toml -m "Bump version to ${NEW_VERSION}"
-git push origin main
-git tag "v$LAYER_VERSION"
-git push origin "refs/tags/v$LAYER_VERSION"
+echo "Answer 'n' if you already released in GitHub"
+read -p "Do you want to bump the version in GitHub? (y/n)" CONT
+if [ "$CONT" != "y" ]; then
+    echo "Skipping publishing updates to GitHub"
+else
+    echo
+    echo 'Publishing updates to github'
+    git commit pyproject.toml -m "Bump version to ${NEW_VERSION}"
+    git push origin main
+    git tag "v$LAYER_VERSION"
+    git push origin "refs/tags/v$LAYER_VERSION"
+fi
 
 echo
-echo "Now create a new release with the tag v${LAYER_VERSION} created"
+echo "Now create a new release with the tag v${LAYER_VERSION} created unless you have done this already"
 echo "https://github.com/DataDog/datadog-lambda-python/releases/new?tag=v$LAYER_VERSION&title=v$LAYER_VERSION"
 # Open a PR to the documentation repo to automatically bump layer version
 VERSION=$LAYER_VERSION LAYER=datadog-lambda-python ./scripts/create_documentation_pr.sh