diff --git a/scripts/build-images.sh b/scripts/build-images.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..6dbcbe88fb2e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/build-images.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -e 
+
+VERSION=${VERSION}
+ARCH=$(uname -m)
+REPO="brigad/irdu-data/prefect/production"
+ACCOUNT="227743832892.dkr.ecr.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com"
+FULL_REPO="${ACCOUNT}/${REPO}"
+
+echo $FULL_REPO
+
+docker build --build-arg PYTHON_VERSION=3.11 --build-arg BUILD_PYTHON_VERSION=3.11 -f ../Dockerfile .. -t ${FULL_REPO}:${VERSION}-${ARCH}
+
+docker push ${FULL_REPO}:${VERSION}-${ARCH}
+
+IMAGES=$(aws ecr list-images --repository-name ${REPO} |jq -c '.imageIds[] | select(has("imageTag") and (.imageTag | contains("2.11.4-"))) | .imageTag' | xargs -I% echo ${FULL_REPO}:% | xargs)
+
+echo ${IMAGES}
+
+docker manifest create ${FULL_REPO}:${VERSION} ${IMAGES} --amend 
+
+docker manifest push ${FULL_REPO}:${VERSION}
diff --git a/src/prefect/client/orchestration.py b/src/prefect/client/orchestration.py
index 7d90546e6b89..74ee783fe7d8 100644
--- a/src/prefect/client/orchestration.py
+++ b/src/prefect/client/orchestration.py
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
     PREFECT_API_URL,
     PREFECT_CLOUD_API_URL,
     PREFECT_UNIT_TEST_MODE,
+    PREFECT_API_BASIC_AUTH
 )
 from prefect.utilities.collections import AutoEnum
 
@@ -142,6 +143,7 @@ def get_client(httpx_settings: Optional[dict] = None) -> "PrefectClient":
     return PrefectClient(
         api,
         api_key=PREFECT_API_KEY.value(),
+        api_basic_auth=PREFECT_API_BASIC_AUTH.value(),
         httpx_settings=httpx_settings,
     )
 
@@ -153,6 +155,7 @@ class PrefectClient:
     Args:
         api: the REST API URL or FastAPI application to connect to
         api_key: An optional API key for authentication.
+        api_basic_auth: An optional basic auth string for authentication.
         api_version: The API version this client is compatible with.
         httpx_settings: An optional dictionary of settings to pass to the underlying
             `httpx.AsyncClient`
@@ -177,6 +180,7 @@ def __init__(
         api: Union[str, FastAPI],
         *,
         api_key: str = None,
+        api_basic_auth: str = None,
         api_version: str = None,
         httpx_settings: dict = None,
     ) -> None:
@@ -194,6 +198,8 @@ def __init__(
         httpx_settings["headers"].setdefault("X-PREFECT-API-VERSION", api_version)
         if api_key:
             httpx_settings["headers"].setdefault("Authorization", f"Bearer {api_key}")
+        if api_basic_auth:
+            httpx_settings["headers"].setdefault("Authorization", f"Basic {api_basic_auth}")
 
         # Context management
         self._exit_stack = AsyncExitStack()
diff --git a/src/prefect/settings.py b/src/prefect/settings.py
index 37948954fa64..18fa7f0bdb0f 100644
--- a/src/prefect/settings.py
+++ b/src/prefect/settings.py
@@ -589,6 +589,13 @@ def default_cloud_ui_url(settings, value):
 )
 """API key used to authenticate with a the Prefect API. Defaults to `None`."""
 
+PREFECT_API_BASIC_AUTH = Setting(
+    str,
+    default=None,
+    is_secret=True,
+)
+"""BASIC Auth token to authenticate with a the Prefect API. Defaults to `None`."""
+
 PREFECT_API_ENABLE_HTTP2 = Setting(bool, default=True)
 """
 If true, enable support for HTTP/2 for communicating with an API.