diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/snowflake-connector-python/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/snowflake-connector-python/default.nix
index c8f874d4c103..3e958a3076c3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/snowflake-connector-python/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/snowflake-connector-python/default.nix
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ buildPythonPackage rec {
 
   postPatch = ''
     substituteInPlace setup.py \
-      --replace "'boto3>=1.4.4,<1.15'," "'boto3~=1.15'," \
+      --replace "'boto3>=1.4.4,<1.16'," "'boto3~=1.16'," \
       --replace "'cryptography>=2.5.0,<3.0.0'," "'cryptography'," \
       --replace "'idna<2.10'," "'idna'," \
       --replace "'requests<2.24.0'," "'requests',"