Using Almond with inline requireJs

Question

Here is my grunt file part where I define the requirejs task:

    requirejs: {
        dist: {
            options: {
                name: 'almond',
                mainConfigFile: "<%= yeoman.app %>/js/main.js",
                out: '.tmp/require/js/app.js',
                insertRequire: ['startup'],
                optimize: 'none'
            }
        }
    }

Now in my andular application I mainly load vendor sources that I downloaded through bower.

However I have this need to load the amplitude.com module and it does not seem to have a bower link.

So here is my code:

define(['application/amplitude/module', 'require'], function (module, require) {
    'use strict';

    module.provider('$amplitude', [function $amplitudeProvider() {
        this.$get = ['$q', function ($q) {
            var sync = $q.defer();

            requirejs.config({
                paths: {
                    'amplitude': 'https://d24n15hnbwhuhn.cloudfront.net/libs/amplitude-3.4.1-min.gz'
                },
                shim: {
                    'amplitude': {
                        exports: 'amplitude'
                    }
                }
            });
            require(['amplitude'], function (amplitude) {
                sync.resolve(amplitude);
            });
            return {
                getInstance: function() { return sync.promise; }
            }; 
        }];
    }]);
});

It works like a charm in dev mode. Now when I try to grunt release (which runs the almond task) the thats succeeds but I get an error at runtime saying

Uncaught Error: undefined missing

I tried different ways of writing that but all failed... Anyone able to show the light?