diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 879c361..ccb88b2 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 PyYAML
 nose >=1.0.0
-boto >=2.0b4
+boto >=2.1
 bunch >=1.0.0
 # 0.14 switches to libev, that means bootstrap needs to change too
 gevent ==0.13.6