diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index 1e3b5a2b8..ba53f1b12 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ requests>=2.20.0
 six
 toml
 tqdm
-troposphere
+troposphere>=3.0
 # See https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa/issues/2036
 Werkzeug<1.0
 wheel
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 9d123ebef..8a8d8cce4 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile
+# This file is autogenerated by pip-compile with python 3.8
 # To update, run:
 #
 #    pip-compile --output-file=requirements.txt requirements.in
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ toml==0.10.2
     #   pep517
 tqdm==4.59.0
     # via -r requirements.in
-troposphere==2.7.0
+troposphere==3.0.2
     # via -r requirements.in
 urllib3==1.26.4
     # via
diff --git a/zappa/core.py b/zappa/core.py
index 78fc5ff5b..021434fa0 100644
--- a/zappa/core.py
+++ b/zappa/core.py
@@ -2414,7 +2414,7 @@ def create_stack_template(
 
         # build a fresh template
         self.cf_template = troposphere.Template()
-        self.cf_template.add_description("Automatically generated with Zappa")
+        self.cf_template.set_description("Automatically generated with Zappa")
         self.cf_api_resources = []
         self.cf_parameters = {}