diff --git a/aws_ee/execution-environment.yml b/aws_ee/execution-environment.yml
index 6285def..ed2acd4 100644
--- a/aws_ee/execution-environment.yml
+++ b/aws_ee/execution-environment.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ dependencies:
 
 additional_build_steps:
   prepend: |
-    RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools boto3 yum-utils
+    RUN pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools
   append:
     - RUN curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "/awscliv2.zip"
     - RUN unzip /awscliv2.zip -d /aws