diff --git a/scripts/awsbox/post_create.sh b/scripts/awsbox/post_create.sh
index 33e1de7b316680ddc4761668af17112d9b75985f..e3e41a58c12a71850729e1c94bbcfec45dfed122 100755
--- a/scripts/awsbox/post_create.sh
+++ b/scripts/awsbox/post_create.sh
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 sudo /sbin/chkconfig mysqld on
 sudo /sbin/service mysqld start
 sudo mysql -u root < $(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/create_browserid_user.sql
-echo "CREATE USER 'browserid'@'localhost';" | mysql -u root 
+echo "CREATE USER 'browserid'@'localhost';" | mysql -u root
 echo "CREATE DATABASE browserid;" | mysql -u root
 echo "GRANT ALL ON browserid.* TO 'browserid'@'localhost';" | mysql -u root
-
diff --git a/scripts/awsbox/post_deploy.js b/scripts/awsbox/post_deploy.js
index fab019420ce86b7cb7df1019dcc08f337ee2146f..766cc41a06822f9d9a07f9661997867e55dcc657 100755
--- a/scripts/awsbox/post_deploy.js
+++ b/scripts/awsbox/post_deploy.js
@@ -8,22 +8,5 @@ else
     echo ">> no keypair needed.  you gots one"
 fi
 
-#echo ">> updating strings"
-#svn co -q http://svn.mozilla.org/projects/l10n-misc/trunk/browserid/locale
-#cd locale
-#svn up
-#cd ..
-#./scripts/extract_po.sh locale/
-## yuck!  our debug language breaks if this is not present
-#for file in locale/templates/LC_MESSAGES/*.pot ; do
-#    mv $file $file.old
-#    sed 's/CHARSET/UTF-8/g' $file.old > $file
-#    rm -f $file.old
-#done
-#
-#./scripts/merge_po.sh locale/
-#./locale/compile-mo.sh locale/
-#./locale/compile-json.sh locale/ resources/static/i18n/
-
 echo ">> generating production resources"
 scripts/compress