diff --git a/examples/consumer/cp-redis/README.md b/examples/consumer/cp-redis/README.md
index a16d189..b6d30b3 100644
--- a/examples/consumer/cp-redis/README.md
+++ b/examples/consumer/cp-redis/README.md
@@ -7,12 +7,11 @@ Read records from the Kinesis stream
 Export the required environment vars for connecting to the Kinesis stream and Redis for checkpoint:
 
 ```
-export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=
+export AWS_PROFILE=
 export AWS_REGION=
-export AWS_SECRET_KEY=
 export REDIS_URL=
 ```
 
 ### Run the consumer
 
-    $ go run main.go --app appName --stream streamName
+    $  go run main.go --app appName --stream streamName
diff --git a/examples/producer/README.md b/examples/producer/README.md
index d89b959..a620e95 100644
--- a/examples/producer/README.md
+++ b/examples/producer/README.md
@@ -7,9 +7,8 @@ A prepopulated file with JSON users is available on S3 for seeing the stream.
 Export the required environment vars for connecting to the Kinesis stream:
 
 ```
-export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=
+export AWS_PROFILE=
 export AWS_REGION_NAME=
-export AWS_SECRET_KEY=
 ```
 
 ### Running the code