diff --git a/18_experiment_ss_overhead.sh b/18_experiment_ss_overhead.sh
index 985216b..0e6eb8e 100755
--- a/18_experiment_ss_overhead.sh
+++ b/18_experiment_ss_overhead.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
-./run_clients_distributed.sh ../odin/hosts.txt 3 6 11 NO_OP
+./run_clients_distributed.sh ../odin/hosts.txt 2 9 8 NO_OP
diff --git a/experiment_ss_overhead.sh b/experiment_ss_overhead.sh
index ff443a9..6fd5adb 100755
--- a/experiment_ss_overhead.sh
+++ b/experiment_ss_overhead.sh
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@ if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-./run_clients_distributed.sh ../odin/hosts.txt $1 6 34 NO_OP
+./run_clients_distributed.sh ../odin/hosts.txt $1 6 34 APPEND
diff --git a/experiment_ss_overhead_aws.sh b/experiment_ss_overhead_aws.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..ece605c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/experiment_ss_overhead_aws.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
+    echo "Run as ./experiment_ss_overhead [scale_factor]"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+./run_clients_distributed_aws.sh ../odin/hosts.txt $1 6 34 NO_OP
diff --git a/run_clients_distributed.sh b/run_clients_distributed.sh
index e3aa5ff..1058d25 100755
--- a/run_clients_distributed.sh
+++ b/run_clients_distributed.sh
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ do
     ID=$(echo $line | tr ',' ' ' | awk '{print $1}')
     HOST=$(echo $line | tr ',' ' ' | awk '{print $2}')
     CMD="cd /practicalbft/BFTList-client && source ./env/bin/activate && HOSTS_PATH=/practicalbft/BFTList/conf/hosts.txt python client/client.py $ID $3 $4 $2 $5"
+    echo $CMD
     echo "Launcher ==> Launching client on ${HOST}"
     ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -l ${SLICE:-$DEF_SLICE} -i ${SSH_KEY:-$DEF_SSH_KEY} ${HOST} ${CMD} &> /dev/null &
     pids[${ID}]=$!
diff --git a/run_clients_distributed_aws.sh b/run_clients_distributed_aws.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..8362586
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run_clients_distributed_aws.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# NOTE that nbr_of_clients must be a multiple of the number of nodes
+
+if [ "$#" -ne 5 ]; then
+    echo "Run as SLICE=slice_name SSH_KEY=abs_path_to_ssh_key ./run_clients [abs_path_to_hosts_file] [scale_factor] [nbr_of_clients] [reqs_per_client] [operation]"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+DEF_SLICE=ec2-user
+DEF_SSH_KEY=~/.ssh/aws_bftlist.pem
+
+echo "Launcher ==> Launching clients on AWS nodes"
+declare -a pids
+cat $1 | awk "NR % $2 == 0" | tr ',' ' ' | awk '{print $1","$2}' | while read line
+do
+    ID=$(echo $line | tr ',' ' ' | awk '{print $1}')
+    HOST=$(echo $line | tr ',' ' ' | awk '{print $2}')
+    CMD="cd /practicalbft/BFTList-client && source ./env/bin/activate && HOSTS_PATH=/practicalbft/BFTList/conf/hosts.txt python client/client.py $ID $3 $4 $2 $5"
+    echo $CMD
+    echo "Launcher ==> Launching client on ${HOST}"
+    ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -l ${SLICE:-$DEF_SLICE} -i ${SSH_KEY:-$DEF_SSH_KEY} ${HOST} ${CMD} &> /dev/null &
+    # ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -l ${SLICE:-$DEF_SLICE} -i ${SSH_KEY:-$DEF_SSH_KEY} ${HOST} ${CMD}
+    pids[${ID}]=$!
+done
+echo "Launcher ==> Clients launched on PlanetLab nodes!"