diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 # Change Log
 
+## 0.26.1
+
+* Remove dependency on `aeson-qq`
+
 ## 0.26.0
 
 * Update resource specification document to version 2.8.0
diff --git a/examples/ec2-with-eip.hs b/examples/ec2-with-eip.hs
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/examples/ec2-with-eip.hs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,124 +0,0 @@
-{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedLists #-}
-{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
-{-# LANGUAGE QuasiQuotes #-}
-
--- | This is a translated version of an example from the CloudFormation docs at
--- https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-east-1/EIP_With_Association.template.
--- The difference is the mappings are removed because they don't add anything
--- to the exposition of stratosphere.
-
-module Main where
-
-import Control.Lens
-import Data.Aeson
-import Data.Aeson.QQ (aesonQQ)
-import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as B
-
-import Stratosphere
-
-main :: IO ()
-main = B.putStrLn $ encodeTemplate myTemplate
-
-myTemplate :: Template
-myTemplate =
-  template
-  [ resource "EC2Instance" (
-      EC2InstanceProperties $
-      ec2Instance
-      & eciImageId ?~ "ami-22111148"
-      & eciInstanceType ?~ toRef instanceTypeParam
-      & eciKeyName ?~ toRef keyParam
-      & eciUserData ?~ Base64 (Join "" ["IPAddress=", toRef sshParam])
-      & eciSecurityGroups ?~ [Ref "InstanceSecuritygroup"]
-      )
-    & resourceDeletionPolicy ?~ Retain
-    & resourceMetadata ?~ ec2Metadata
-  , resource "InstanceSecurityGroup" $
-    EC2SecurityGroupProperties $
-    ec2SecurityGroup
-    "Enable SSH Access"
-    & ecsgSecurityGroupIngress ?~ [
-      ec2SecurityGroupIngressProperty
-      "tcp"
-      & ecsgipFromPort ?~ Literal 22
-      & ecsgipToPort ?~ Literal 22
-      & ecsgipCidrIp ?~ Ref "SSHLocation"
-      ]
-  , resource "IPAddress" (EC2EIPProperties ec2EIP)
-  , resource "IPAssoc" $
-    EC2EIPAssociationProperties $
-    ec2EIPAssociation
-    & eceipaInstanceId ?~ Ref "EC2Instance"
-    & eceipaEIP ?~ Ref "IPAddress"
-  ]
-  & templateDescription ?~ "See https://s3.amazonaws.com/cloudformation-templates-us-east-1/EIP_With_Association.template"
-  & templateFormatVersion ?~ "2010-09-09"
-  & templateParameters ?~
-  [ instanceTypeParam
-  , keyParam
-  , sshParam
-  ]
-  & templateOutputs ?~
-  [ output "InstanceId"
-    (Ref "EC2Instance")
-    & outputDescription ?~ "InstanceId of the newly created EC2 instance"
-  , output "InstanceIPAddress"
-    (Ref "IPAddress")
-    & outputDescription ?~ "IP address of the newly created EC2 instance"
-  ]
-
-ec2Metadata :: Object
-(Object ec2Metadata) = [aesonQQ|
-{
-  "AWS::CloudFormation::Init": {
-    "configSets": {
-      "test1": ["1"],
-      "test2": [{"ConfigSet": "test1"}, "2"],
-      "default": [{"ConfigSet": "test2"}]
-    },
-    "1": {
-      "commands": {
-        "test": {
-          "command": "echo \"$MAGIC\" > test.txt",
-          "env": {"MAGIC": "I come from the environment!"},
-          "cwd": "~"
-        }
-      }
-    },
-    "2": {
-      "commands": {
-        "test": {
-          "command": "echo \"$MAGIC\" >> test.txt",
-          "env": {"MAGIC": "I am test 2!"},
-          "cwd": "~"
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-}
-|]
-
-instanceTypeParam :: Parameter
-instanceTypeParam =
-  parameter "InstanceType" "String"
-  & parameterDescription ?~ "WebServer EC2 instance type"
-  & parameterDefault' ?~ "t2.small"
-  & parameterAllowedValues ?~ [ "t1.micro", "t2.small" ]
-  & parameterConstraintDescription ?~ "must be a valid EC2 instance type."
-
-keyParam :: Parameter
-keyParam =
-  parameter "KeyName" "AWS::EC2::KeyPair::KeyName"
-  & parameterDescription ?~ "Name of an existing EC2 KeyPair to enable SSH access to the instances"
-  & parameterConstraintDescription ?~ "must be the name of an existing EC2 KeyPair."
-
-sshParam :: Parameter
-sshParam =
-  parameter "SSHLocation" "String"
-  & parameterDescription ?~ "The IP address range that can be used to SSH to the EC2 instances"
-  & parameterMinLength ?~ 9
-  & parameterMaxLength ?~ 18
-  & parameterDefault' ?~ "0.0.0.0/0"
-  & parameterAllowedValues ?~ [ "t1.micro", "t2.small" ]
-  & parameterAllowedPattern ?~ "(\\d{1,3})\\.(\\d{1,3})\\.(\\d{1,3})\\.(\\d{1,3})/(\\d{1,2})"
-  & parameterConstraintDescription ?~ "must be a valid IP CIDR range of the form x.x.x.x/x."
diff --git a/stratosphere.cabal b/stratosphere.cabal
--- a/stratosphere.cabal
+++ b/stratosphere.cabal
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
 --
 -- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
 --
--- hash: 962710ab05cb0bbc5c857558fef6b2e9340ce4cafc1e4884af35aa5596dbe3fd
+-- hash: 6902720cc395da955d08f5dff4d08bdd8a1ae475a06a7452c2d55b931843e4f2
 
 name:           stratosphere
-version:        0.26.0
+version:        0.26.1
 synopsis:       EDSL for AWS CloudFormation
 description:    EDSL for AWS CloudFormation
 category:       AWS, Cloud
@@ -1008,30 +1008,6 @@
   build-depends:
       aeson >=0.11
     , aeson-pretty >=0.8
-    , base >=4.8 && <5
-    , bytestring
-    , containers
-    , hashable
-    , lens >=4.5
-    , stratosphere
-    , template-haskell >=2.0
-    , text >=1.1
-    , unordered-containers >=0.2
-  if flag(library-only)
-    buildable: False
-  default-language: Haskell2010
-
-executable ec2-with-eip
-  main-is: ec2-with-eip.hs
-  other-modules:
-      Paths_stratosphere
-  hs-source-dirs:
-      examples
-  ghc-options: -Wall
-  build-depends:
-      aeson >=0.11
-    , aeson-pretty >=0.8
-    , aeson-qq
     , base >=4.8 && <5
     , bytestring
     , containers