diff --git a/omniqueue/Cargo.toml b/omniqueue/Cargo.toml
index 387f6ea..e3751fa 100644
--- a/omniqueue/Cargo.toml
+++ b/omniqueue/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ edition = "2021"
 
 [dependencies]
 async-trait = "0.1"
-aws-config = { version = "0.55", optional = true }
-aws-sdk-sqs = { version = "0.25", optional = true }
+aws-config = { version = "1.1.5", features = ["behavior-version-latest"], optional = true }
+aws-sdk-sqs = { version = "1.13.0", optional = true }
 bb8 = { version = "0.8", optional = true }
 bb8-redis = { version = "0.13", optional = true }
 futures-util = { version = "0.3.28", default-features = false, features = ["async-await", "std"], optional = true }
diff --git a/omniqueue/src/backends/sqs.rs b/omniqueue/src/backends/sqs.rs
index 5970807..cd916a8 100644
--- a/omniqueue/src/backends/sqs.rs
+++ b/omniqueue/src/backends/sqs.rs
@@ -272,7 +272,6 @@ impl QueueConsumer for SqsQueueConsumer {
             .map_err(QueueError::generic)?;
 
         out.messages()
-            .unwrap_or_default()
             .iter()
             .map(|message| -> Result<Delivery, QueueError> { Ok(self.wrap_message(message)) })
             .next()
@@ -298,7 +297,6 @@ impl QueueConsumer for SqsQueueConsumer {
 
         Ok(out
             .messages()
-            .unwrap_or_default()
             .iter()
             .map(|message| -> Result<Delivery, QueueError> { Ok(self.wrap_message(message)) })
             .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()?)