diff --git a/example-projects/demo3-microservice-in-aws.py b/example-projects/demo3-microservice-in-aws.py
index be550b8..e327a79 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 f587f05..38c8f3e 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