diff --git a/playground/startup.sh b/playground/startup.sh
index 201277d6d8688c6bb16bde844b4ab428d2e429f0..02c0243c5aeda74870f227774c869b8a6ace7d46 100644
--- a/playground/startup.sh
+++ b/playground/startup.sh
@@ -6,11 +6,9 @@ CURRDIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
 yum update -y
 
 # install dependencies
-wget "$PBZIP_BASE_URL/$PBZIP_PACKAGE"
 yum install $BASIC_DEPENDENCIES -y
-rm $PBZIP_PACKAGE
 
-#  get Neo4J
+# get Neo4J
 wget $NEO4J_DOWNLOAD_URL
 tar -xvf artifact.php?name=neo4j-community-3.5.13-unix.tar.gz
 rm artifact.php?name=$NEO4J_SETUP_FILE -f
@@ -30,4 +28,5 @@ done
 # provide ownership to ec2-user user
 chown -R ec2-user:ec2-user $NEO4J_HOME
 
-echo "Use \"$NEO4J_HOME/bin/neo4j start\" to start Neo4J instance"
\ No newline at end of file
+# echo "Use \"$NEO4J_HOME/bin/neo4j start\" to start Neo4J instance"
+sudo -u ec2-user $NEO4J_HOME/bin/neo4j start
diff --git a/userdata_script b/userdata_script
deleted file mode 100644
index a800d61fb496cbcbb4995a98e9156d52a7f42b73..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/userdata_script
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-yum update -y
-yum install git -y
-
-git clone https://gitlab.ebi.ac.uk/sreenath/pdbe-neo4j-aws.git
-cd pdbe-neo4j-aws
-chmod -R 755 .
-./setup.sh playground