diff --git a/example-projects/demo3-microservice-in-aws.py b/example-projects/demo3-microservice-in-aws.py
index be550b8385ac8efcebe58cae371a85b55a2c846d..e327a792e6adcc2da14b4f9bd5aa5d16a8bca777 100644
--- a/example-projects/demo3-microservice-in-aws.py
+++ b/example-projects/demo3-microservice-in-aws.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ ubuntu_image_name = 'ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server-2021
 keypair_name = "vockey"
 
 # keypair_name = 'srieger-pub'
-# pub_key_file = home + '/.ssh/id_rsa.pub'
+pub_key_file = home + '/.ssh/id_rsa.pub'
 
 # id_rsa.pub should look like this (standard sshd pubkey format):
 # ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAw+J...F3w2mleybgT1w== user@HOSTNAME
diff --git a/example-projects/demo4-scale-out-lb-in-aws.py b/example-projects/demo4-scale-out-lb-in-aws.py
index f587f050f5519d54db0487731c1dd3c280cb9d22..38c8f3eb43ff1a6e4fad6511d444511a966c5871 100644
--- a/example-projects/demo4-scale-out-lb-in-aws.py
+++ b/example-projects/demo4-scale-out-lb-in-aws.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ ubuntu_image_name = 'ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd/ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server-2021
 keypair_name = "vockey"
 
 # keypair_name = 'srieger-pub'
-# pub_key_file = home + '/.ssh/id_rsa.pub'
+pub_key_file = home + '/.ssh/id_rsa.pub'
 
 # id_rsa.pub should look like this (standard sshd pubkey format):
 # ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAw+J...F3w2mleybgT1w== user@HOSTNAME