diff --git a/CHANGELOG.adoc b/CHANGELOG.adoc
index a638289..e03a59a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.adoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.adoc
@@ -1,5 +1,23 @@
 = Changelog
 
+== 1.6.0
+
+ * fix: pass the default AWS provider explicitly from tfctl generated configuration.
+   This fixes provider inheritance issues when using multiple providers which
+   was introduced in 1.3.0.  You may need to add a terraform block with
+   `required_provides` to your profiles if you don't have it defined already.
+   Terraform will warn about this during `init`.  Here's an example block:
+
+----
+terraform {
+  required_providers {
+    aws = {
+      source = "hashicorp/aws"
+    }
+  }
+}
+----
+
 == 1.5.0
 
  * feat: support for setting default tags at AWS provider level.  (Thanks @patrickli)
diff --git a/examples/control_tower/modules/s3-bucket/main.tf b/examples/control_tower/modules/s3-bucket/main.tf
index 1770111..81c7211 100644
--- a/examples/control_tower/modules/s3-bucket/main.tf
+++ b/examples/control_tower/modules/s3-bucket/main.tf
@@ -2,3 +2,7 @@ resource aws_s3_bucket bucket {
   bucket = var.name
   acl    = "private"
 }
+
+output "arn" {
+  value = aws_s3_bucket.bucket.arn
+}
diff --git a/examples/control_tower/profiles/example-profile/main.tf b/examples/control_tower/profiles/example-profile/main.tf
index 26a3b61..d081e62 100644
--- a/examples/control_tower/profiles/example-profile/main.tf
+++ b/examples/control_tower/profiles/example-profile/main.tf
@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
+resource "random_pet" "bucket_prefix" {
+}
+
 module "bucket" {
   source = "../../modules/s3-bucket"
-  name   = "${local.account_id}-${local.account["data"]["example_bucket_name"]}"
+  name   = "${random_pet.bucket_prefix.id}-${local.account["data"]["example_bucket_name"]}"
+}
+
+output "bucket_arn" {
+  value = module.bucket.arn
 }
diff --git a/examples/control_tower/profiles/example-profile/terraform.tf b/examples/control_tower/profiles/example-profile/terraform.tf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f2702bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/control_tower/profiles/example-profile/terraform.tf
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+terraform {
+  required_providers {
+    aws = {
+      source = "hashicorp/aws"
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/examples/control_tower/profiles/example-profile/variables.tf b/examples/control_tower/profiles/example-profile/variables.tf
index 8b8261b..87b2caa 100644
--- a/examples/control_tower/profiles/example-profile/variables.tf
+++ b/examples/control_tower/profiles/example-profile/variables.tf
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ variable "config" {
 
 locals {
   config     = jsondecode(var.config)
-  account_id = "${data.aws_caller_identity.current.account_id}"
+  account_id = data.aws_caller_identity.current.account_id
   # get account configuration from tfctl config
-  account    = [ for account in local.config["accounts"]: account if account["id"] == local.account_id ][0]
+  account = [for account in local.config["accounts"] : account if account["id"] == local.account_id][0]
 }
diff --git a/lib/tfctl/generator.rb b/lib/tfctl/generator.rb
index 39827e0..b78dbc9 100644
--- a/lib/tfctl/generator.rb
+++ b/lib/tfctl/generator.rb
@@ -80,8 +80,11 @@ def make(account:, config:)
                 profile_block = {
                     'module' => {
                         profile => {
-                            'source' => "../../../profiles/#{profile}",
-                            'config' => '${var.config}',
+                            'source'    => "../../../profiles/#{profile}",
+                            'config'    => '${var.config}',
+                            'providers' => {
+                                'aws' => 'aws',
+                            },
                         },
                     },
                 }
diff --git a/lib/tfctl/version.rb b/lib/tfctl/version.rb
index 74b3ae7..dd08f18 100644
--- a/lib/tfctl/version.rb
+++ b/lib/tfctl/version.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # frozen_string_literal: true
 
 module Tfctl
-    VERSION = '1.5.0'
+    VERSION = '1.6.0'
 end