diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 7a77de7e4..8be88ead4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 jinja2==2.11.2
-boto3==1.26.62
+boto3@ git+https://github.com/michael-redpanda/boto3@efa79752deecc843a28a8b236a293b38b0565e76
 # jinja2 pulls in MarkupSafe with a > constraint, but we need to constrain it for compatibility
 MarkupSafe<2.0.0
 pyparsing<3.0.0