diff --git a/deploy-cluster-aws/fabfile.py b/deploy-cluster-aws/fabfile.py
index 2d261603..4389462d 100644
--- a/deploy-cluster-aws/fabfile.py
+++ b/deploy-cluster-aws/fabfile.py
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ def install_bigchaindb():
 # startup all nodes of bigchaindb in cluster
 @task
 @parallel
-def start_bigchain_nodes():
+def start_bigchaindb_nodes():
     sudo('screen -d -m bigchaindb -y start &', pty = False)
 
 
diff --git a/deploy-cluster-aws/startup.sh b/deploy-cluster-aws/startup.sh
index 71f72609..a5c2215a 100755
--- a/deploy-cluster-aws/startup.sh
+++ b/deploy-cluster-aws/startup.sh
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ fab install_bigchaindb
 HORST=`tail -1 conf/bigchaindb.conf|cut -d: -f1|cut -d= -f2`
 fab -H $HORST -f fab_prepare_chain.py init_bigchaindb
 # initiate sharding
-fab start_bigchain_nodes
+fab start_bigchaindb_nodes
 
 # now cleanup!
 rm add2known_hosts.sh add2dbconf