diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 851acde..2d4c4f7 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ RUN echo " ... installing api-gateway-cachemanager..." \
     && rm -rf /var/cache/apk/* \
     && rm -rf /tmp/api-gateway
 
-ENV AWS_VERSION 1.7.0
+ENV AWS_VERSION 1.7.1
 RUN echo " ... installing api-gateway-aws ..." \
     && apk update \
     && apk add make \
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 10e6640..00f6275 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ What's inside
 | [api-gateway-config-supervisor](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-config-supervisor) | [1.0.0](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-config-supervisor/releases/tag/1.0.0) | Syncs config files from Amazon S3 reloading the gateway with the updates |
 | [api-gateway-cachemanager](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-cachemanager) | [1.0.1](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-cachemanager/releases/tag/1.0.1) | Lua library for managing multiple cache stores |
 | [api-gateway-hmac](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-hmac) | [1.0.0](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-hmac/releases/tag/1.0.0) | HMAC support for Lua with multiple algorithms, via OpenSSL and FFI |
-| [api-gateway-aws](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-aws) | [1.7.0](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-aws/releases/tag/1.7.0) | AWS SDK for Nginx in Lua |
+| [api-gateway-aws](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-aws) | [1.7.1](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-aws/releases/tag/1.7.1) | AWS SDK for Nginx in Lua |
 | [api-gateway-request-validation](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-request-validation) | [1.1.1](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-request-validation/releases/tag/1.1.1) | API Request Validation framework  |
 | [api-gateway-async-logger](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-async-logger) | [1.0.1](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-async-logger/releases/tag/1.0.1) | Performant async logger |
 | [api-gateway-zmq-logger](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-zmq-logger) | [1.0.0](https://github.com/adobe-apiplatform/api-gateway-zmq-logger/releases/tag/1.0.0) | Lua logger for ZMQ with FFI and CZMQ |