diff --git a/example-projects/counter-demo/aws-lambda-localstack/start.py b/example-projects/counter-demo/aws-lambda-localstack/start.py
index c86630e6b596f62c14e33200a8ca1c3a92d2adc5..1253090c3c7e926d1ff48a1bcd1113fa8f25d651 100644
--- a/example-projects/counter-demo/aws-lambda-localstack/start.py
+++ b/example-projects/counter-demo/aws-lambda-localstack/start.py
@@ -131,7 +131,10 @@ print("Lambda Function and S3 Bucket to store the counter are available.\n"
       "Try to understand how Lambda can be used to cut costs regarding cloud services and what its pros\n"
       "and cons are.\n")
 
-# sadly, AWS Academy Labs don't allow API gateways
+# API gateways require a Pro license from localstack, as a student you can apply for
+# a hobby/open source dev license, that's the same license that I used for the demo in the
+# lab/lecture
+
 # API gateway would allow getting an HTTP endpoint that we could access directly in the browser,
 # that would call our function, as in the provided demo:
 #