diff --git a/requirements-docs.txt b/requirements-docs.txt
index 1f4206fb630a..5fc8843eecbf 100644
--- a/requirements-docs.txt
+++ b/requirements-docs.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-docutils>=0.10,<0.16
+docutils>=0.10,<0.18
 Sphinx==1.2.3
 -e .
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index d651282735ae..fa2b4bb217e1 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ universal = 0
 [metadata]
 requires_dist =
         botocore==1.21.46
-        docutils>=0.10,<0.16
+        docutils>=0.10,<0.18
         s3transfer>=0.5.0,<0.6.0
         PyYAML>=3.10,<5.5
         colorama>=0.2.5,<0.4.4
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 786bf60a6f78..446a05cb3dd2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def find_version(*file_paths):
 
 install_requires = [
     'botocore==1.21.46',
-    'docutils>=0.10,<0.16',
+    'docutils>=0.10,<0.18',
     's3transfer>=0.5.0,<0.6.0',
     'PyYAML>=3.10,<5.5',
     'colorama>=0.2.5,<0.4.4',