diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 636d09ba49deadcc11960ec2c12da96caba383f5..b117e776e0b3061c924509f357d7a666af19d2dc 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ module github.com/aquasecurity/kube-bench
 go 1.16
 
 require (
-	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.41.19
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.42.9
 	github.com/fatih/color v1.13.0
 	github.com/golang/glog v0.0.0-20160126235308-23def4e6c14b
 	github.com/magiconair/properties v1.8.5
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index e210836b9ba89be74a431001e1452c721efd2262..41bedfa189a3cc70826bf25b099ba17e06ca111b 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ github.com/armon/go-metrics v0.0.0-20180917152333-f0300d1749da/go.mod h1:Q73ZrmV
 github.com/armon/go-radix v0.0.0-20180808171621-7fddfc383310/go.mod h1:ufUuZ+zHj4x4TnLV4JWEpy2hxWSpsRywHrMgIH9cCH8=
 github.com/armon/go-radix v1.0.0/go.mod h1:ufUuZ+zHj4x4TnLV4JWEpy2hxWSpsRywHrMgIH9cCH8=
 github.com/asaskevich/govalidator v0.0.0-20190424111038-f61b66f89f4a/go.mod h1:lB+ZfQJz7igIIfQNfa7Ml4HSf2uFQQRzpGGRXenZAgY=
-github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.41.19 h1:9QR2WTNj5bFdrNjRY9SeoG+3hwQmKXGX16851vdh+N8=
-github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.41.19/go.mod h1:585smgzpB/KqRA+K3y/NL/oYRqQvpNJYvLm+LY1U59Q=
+github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.42.9 h1:8ptAGgA+uC2TUbdvUeOVSfBocIZvGE2NKiLxkAcn1GA=
+github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.42.9/go.mod h1:585smgzpB/KqRA+K3y/NL/oYRqQvpNJYvLm+LY1U59Q=
 github.com/bgentry/speakeasy v0.1.0/go.mod h1:+zsyZBPWlz7T6j88CTgSN5bM796AkVf0kBD4zp0CCIs=
 github.com/bketelsen/crypt v0.0.4/go.mod h1:aI6NrJ0pMGgvZKL1iVgXLnfIFJtfV+bKCoqOes/6LfM=
 github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-proto v0.2.1/go.mod h1:f6KPmirojxKA12rnyqOA5BBL4O983OfeGPqjHWSTneU=