diff --git a/docs/ec2-scripts.md b/docs/ec2-scripts.md
index d50f445d7ecc74468acfb3c19f9b4dd4e0d37b06..8c9a1e1262d8ffd25adab57f77f5edf786fd05e8 100644
--- a/docs/ec2-scripts.md
+++ b/docs/ec2-scripts.md
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ identify machines belonging to each cluster in the Amazon EC2 Console.
     ```bash
     export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=AaBbCcDdEeFGgHhIiJjKkLlMmNnOoPpQqRrSsTtU
 export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=ABCDEFG1234567890123
-./spark-ec2 --key-pair=awskey --identity-file=awskey.pem --region=us-west-1 --zone=us-west-1a --spark-version=1.1.0 launch my-spark-cluster
+./spark-ec2 --key-pair=awskey --identity-file=awskey.pem --region=us-west-1 --zone=us-west-1a launch my-spark-cluster
     ```
 
 -   After everything launches, check that the cluster scheduler is up and sees