diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1248,7 +1248,6 @@
  "async-stream",
  "aws-config",
  "aws-sdk-dynamodb",
- "aws-types",
  "bincode",
  "chrono",
  "clap",
diff --git a/services/backup/Cargo.toml b/services/backup/Cargo.toml
--- a/services/backup/Cargo.toml
+++ b/services/backup/Cargo.toml
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 async-stream = { workspace = true }
 aws-config = { workspace = true }
 aws-sdk-dynamodb = { workspace = true }
-aws-types = { workspace = true }
 chrono = { workspace = true }
 clap = { workspace = true, features = ["derive", "env"] }
 comm-lib = { path = "../../shared/comm-lib", features = [
diff --git a/services/backup/src/config.rs b/services/backup/src/config.rs
--- a/services/backup/src/config.rs
+++ b/services/backup/src/config.rs
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 }
 
 /// Provides region/credentials configuration for AWS SDKs
-pub async fn load_aws_config() -> aws_types::SdkConfig {
+pub async fn load_aws_config() -> aws_config::SdkConfig {
   let mut config_builder = aws_config::from_env();
 
   if let Some(endpoint) = &CONFIG.localstack_endpoint {
diff --git a/services/backup/src/database/mod.rs b/services/backup/src/database/mod.rs
--- a/services/backup/src/database/mod.rs
+++ b/services/backup/src/database/mod.rs
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 }
 
 impl DatabaseClient {
-  pub fn new(aws_config: &aws_types::SdkConfig) -> Self {
+  pub fn new(aws_config: &aws_config::SdkConfig) -> Self {
     DatabaseClient {
       client: aws_sdk_dynamodb::Client::new(aws_config),
     }