diff --git a/kafka-connect-s3/pom.xml b/kafka-connect-s3/pom.xml
index 488b86b29..8fd9946f7 100644
--- a/kafka-connect-s3/pom.xml
+++ b/kafka-connect-s3/pom.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
     </description>
 
     <properties>
-        <aws.version>1.11.725</aws.version>
+        <aws.version>1.12.252</aws.version>
         <s3mock.version>0.2.5</s3mock.version>
         <apache.httpclient.version>4.5.9</apache.httpclient.version>
         <kafka.connect.maven.plugin.version>0.11.1</kafka.connect.maven.plugin.version>