diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-botocore/pyproject.toml b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-botocore/pyproject.toml
index df0d9a8939..702723015e 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-botocore/pyproject.toml
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-botocore/pyproject.toml
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ instruments = [
 test = [
   "opentelemetry-instrumentation-botocore[instruments]",
   "markupsafe==2.0.1",
+  "botocore ~= 1.0, < 1.31.81",
   "moto[all] ~= 2.2.6",
   "opentelemetry-test-utils == 0.43b0.dev",
 ]