diff --git a/dynomite/Cargo.toml b/dynomite/Cargo.toml
index db942ba..c0a0d28 100644
--- a/dynomite/Cargo.toml
+++ b/dynomite/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ maintenance = { status = "actively-developed" }
 [dependencies]
 async-trait = "0.1"
 again = "0.1"
-aws-sdk-dynamodb = "0.6"
+aws-sdk-dynamodb = "0.8"
 bytes = "1"
 dynomite-derive = { version = "0.10.0", path = "../dynomite-derive", optional = true }
 futures = "0.3"
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ uuid = { version = "0.8", features = ["v4"], optional = true }
 chrono = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-aws-config = "0.6"
+aws-config = "0.8"
 env_logger = "0.9"
 maplit = "1.0"
 serde = "1.0"
diff --git a/dynomite/src/lib.rs b/dynomite/src/lib.rs
index 348412c..bf395c4 100644
--- a/dynomite/src/lib.rs
+++ b/dynomite/src/lib.rs
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ use chrono::{
 
 // we re-export this because we
 // refer to it with in derive macros
-use aws_sdk_dynamodb::Blob;
+use aws_sdk_dynamodb::types::Blob;
 #[doc(hidden)]
 pub use dynamodb::model::AttributeValue;
 use std::{