diff --git a/Code/Framework/AzFramework/Platform/Windows/AzFramework/Process/ProcessWatcher_Win.cpp b/Code/Framework/AzFramework/Platform/Windows/AzFramework/Process/ProcessWatcher_Win.cpp
index b0ef2f09a4..387a1abfe7 100644
--- a/Code/Framework/AzFramework/Platform/Windows/AzFramework/Process/ProcessWatcher_Win.cpp
+++ b/Code/Framework/AzFramework/Platform/Windows/AzFramework/Process/ProcessWatcher_Win.cpp
@@ -374,8 +374,6 @@ namespace AzFramework
                 // is double-quoted, then the double-quotes must be escaped properly otherwise
                 // it will be absorbed by the native argument parser and possibly evaluated as
                 // multiple values for arguments
-                AZStd::string_view escapedDoubleQuote = R"("\")";
-
                 AZStd::vector<AZStd::string> preprocessedCommandArray;
 
                 for (const auto& commandArg : commandLineArray)