diff --git a/.changes/1.24.9.json b/.changes/1.24.9.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bdae733abb8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/1.24.9.json
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+[
+  {
+    "category": "``ec2``",
+    "description": "C7g instances, powered by the latest generation AWS Graviton3 processors, provide the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for compute-intensive workloads.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``emr-serverless``",
+    "description": "This release adds support for Amazon EMR Serverless, a serverless runtime environment that simplifies running analytics applications using the latest open source frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``forecast``",
+    "description": "Introduced a new field in Auto Predictor as Time Alignment Boundary. It helps in aligning the timestamps generated during Forecast exports",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``lightsail``",
+    "description": "Amazon Lightsail now supports the ability to configure a Lightsail Container Service to pull images from Amazon ECR private repositories in your account.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  }
+]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 19c7b9ab0086..21496d719bcc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 CHANGELOG
 =========
 
+1.24.9
+======
+
+* api-change:``ec2``: C7g instances, powered by the latest generation AWS Graviton3 processors, provide the best price performance in Amazon EC2 for compute-intensive workloads.
+* api-change:``emr-serverless``: This release adds support for Amazon EMR Serverless, a serverless runtime environment that simplifies running analytics applications using the latest open source frameworks such as Apache Spark and Apache Hive.
+* api-change:``forecast``: Introduced a new field in Auto Predictor as Time Alignment Boundary. It helps in aligning the timestamps generated during Forecast exports
+* api-change:``lightsail``: Amazon Lightsail now supports the ability to configure a Lightsail Container Service to pull images from Amazon ECR private repositories in your account.
+
+
 1.24.8
 ======
 
diff --git a/awscli/__init__.py b/awscli/__init__.py
index d435a073b9b9..8f30b2ebe301 100644
--- a/awscli/__init__.py
+++ b/awscli/__init__.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 """
 import os
 
-__version__ = '1.24.8'
+__version__ = '1.24.9'
 
 #
 # Get our data path to be added to botocore's search path
diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index 82275f8a4bf9..d15c23bc9d2e 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = '1.24'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '1.24.8'
+release = '1.24.9'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 62dd59907632..2301b7999bb6 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ universal = 0
 
 [metadata]
 requires_dist =
-        botocore==1.26.8
+        botocore==1.26.9
         docutils>=0.10,<0.17
         s3transfer>=0.5.0,<0.6.0
         PyYAML>=3.10,<5.5
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0f7a5523309f..9efa03c46b18 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ def find_version(*file_paths):
 
 
 install_requires = [
-    'botocore==1.26.8',
+    'botocore==1.26.9',
     'docutils>=0.10,<0.17',
     's3transfer>=0.5.0,<0.6.0',
     'PyYAML>=3.10,<5.5',