diff --git a/requirements/constraints.txt b/requirements/constraints.txt
index f6ff924327..8b5ad4f04b 100644
--- a/requirements/constraints.txt
+++ b/requirements/constraints.txt
@@ -76,3 +76,10 @@ pyopenssl==22.0.0
 cryptography==38.0.4 # greater version has some issues with openssl.
 
 pylint<2.16.0 # greater version failing quality test. Fix them in seperate ticket.
+
+
+# Deprecated version of the AWS SDK;
+# we should stop using this
+boto==2.39.0
+boto3==1.4.8                        # Amazon Web Services SDK for Python
+botocore==1.8.17                    # via boto3, s3transfer
diff --git a/requirements/edx/base.in b/requirements/edx/base.in
index 261f01ff8a..3a2b9aee8a 100644
--- a/requirements/edx/base.in
+++ b/requirements/edx/base.in
@@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ analytics-python                    # Used for Segment analytics
 attrs                               # Reduces boilerplate code involving class attributes
 Babel                               # Internationalization utilities, used for date formatting in a few places
 bleach[css]                         # Allowed-list-based HTML sanitizing library that escapes or strips markup and attributes; used for capa and LTI
-boto==2.39.0                        # Deprecated version of the AWS SDK; we should stop using this
-boto3==1.4.8                        # Amazon Web Services SDK for Python
-botocore==1.8.17                    # via boto3, s3transfer
+boto                                # Deprecated version of the AWS SDK; we should stop using this
+boto3                               # Amazon Web Services SDK for Python
+botocore                            # via boto3, s3transfer
 bridgekeeper                        # Used for determining permissions for courseware.
 celery                              # Asynchronous task execution library
 chem                                # A helper library for chemistry calculations