diff --git a/requirements_dev.txt b/requirements_dev.txt
index 7e6b60a9e5..aa9a55479b 100644
--- a/requirements_dev.txt
+++ b/requirements_dev.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ mock==2.0.0
 # PyMongo and Athena dependencies are needed for some of the unit tests:
 # (this is not perfect and we should resolve this in a different way)
 pymongo[tls,srv]==3.6.1
-botocore==1.12.115
+botocore==1.12.220
 PyAthena>=1.5.0
 ptvsd==4.2.3
 freezegun==0.3.11