diff --git a/release/startup.sh b/release/startup.sh
index d5272832ffeef48ecb946e50c4ec395132cf951e..0f7b3bf24930a727337300959c68718217dc8abc 100644
--- a/release/startup.sh
+++ b/release/startup.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,3 @@ mkdir -p $mountpoint/neo4j_data/dbms
 
 # provide ownership to ec2-user user
 chown -R ec2-user:ec2-user $mountpoint
-
-# get pdbe graph extensions
-aws s3 cp s3://ebi-pdbe/neo4j/pdbe-extensions-1.0.2-SNAPSHOT.jar .
-mv pdbe-extensions-1.0.2-SNAPSHOT.jar /var/lib/neo4j-community-3.5.13/plugins/