diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a01c9de..6364bb0 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ build-dep-fed:
 		python3-defusedxml \
 		python3-requests \
 		python3-dateutil \
-		python3-boto3 \
+		python3-botocore \
 		python3-lxml
 
 test: copyright lint unittest
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a2d88aa..a196c9d 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 defusedxml
 requests
 python-dateutil
-boto3
+botocore
 lxml
diff --git a/rpm_s3_mirror.spec b/rpm_s3_mirror.spec
index ecee73a..f934745 100644
--- a/rpm_s3_mirror.spec
+++ b/rpm_s3_mirror.spec
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ BuildRequires:  rpm-build
 Requires:       python3-defusedxml
 Requires:       python3-requests
 Requires:       python3-dateutil
-Requires:       python3-boto3
+Requires:       python3-botocore
 Requires:       python3-lxml
 Requires:       systemd
 Requires:       zchunk
diff --git a/rpm_s3_mirror/s3.py b/rpm_s3_mirror/s3.py
index ea3f6ef..5c892d3 100644
--- a/rpm_s3_mirror/s3.py
+++ b/rpm_s3_mirror/s3.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 from typing import Collection, Union, BinaryIO, Dict, Iterable
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
-import boto3
+import botocore.session
 import botocore.exceptions
 import time
 
@@ -220,7 +220,8 @@ def _client(self):
         if self._s3 is None:
             # The boto3 client call is not threadsafe, so only allow calling it from a singe thread at a time
             with lock:
-                self._s3 = boto3.client(
+                botocore_session = botocore.session.get_session()
+                self._s3 = botocore_session.create_client(
                     "s3",
                     region_name=self.bucket_region,
                     aws_access_key_id=self.aws_access_key_id,
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d986985..d764474 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
         "defusedxml",
         "requests",
         "python-dateutil",
-        "boto3",
+        "botocore",
         "lxml",
     ],
     entry_points={