diff --git a/docs/examples/basic_tracer/README.rst b/docs/examples/basic_tracer/README.rst
index 57d431a3877..618263b7a4f 100644
--- a/docs/examples/basic_tracer/README.rst
+++ b/docs/examples/basic_tracer/README.rst
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ There are two different examples:
 
 * basic_trace: Shows how to configure a SpanProcessor and Exporter, and how to create a tracer and span.
 
-* resources: Shows how to add resource information to a Provider. Note that this must be run on a Google Compute Engine instance.
+* resources: Shows how to add resource information to a Provider.
 
 The source files of these examples are available :scm_web:`here <docs/examples/basic_tracer/>`.
 
diff --git a/docs/examples/basic_tracer/resources.py b/docs/examples/basic_tracer/resources.py
index f37e73531d6..a889b8af962 100644
--- a/docs/examples/basic_tracer/resources.py
+++ b/docs/examples/basic_tracer/resources.py
@@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
 from opentelemetry import trace
-from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import get_aggregated_resources
+from opentelemetry.sdk.resources import Resource
 from opentelemetry.sdk.trace import TracerProvider
 from opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export import (
     ConsoleSpanExporter,
     SimpleExportSpanProcessor,
 )
-from opentelemetry.tools.resource_detector import GoogleCloudResourceDetector
 
-resources = get_aggregated_resources([GoogleCloudResourceDetector()])
+resource = Resource.create({"service.name": "basic_service"})
 
-trace.set_tracer_provider(TracerProvider(resource=resources))
+trace.set_tracer_provider(TracerProvider(resource=resource))
 
 trace.get_tracer_provider().add_span_processor(
     SimpleExportSpanProcessor(ConsoleSpanExporter())