diff --git a/project/pom.xml b/project/pom.xml
index 8b67af1e8c..e46a568557 100644
--- a/project/pom.xml
+++ b/project/pom.xml
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@
     <auto-value.version>1.4.1</auto-value.version>
 
     <jetty.version>9.4.46.v20220331</jetty.version>
-    <javax.ws.rs-api.version>2.0.1</javax.ws.rs-api.version>
+    <javax.ws.rs-api.version>2.1.1</javax.ws.rs-api.version>
 
     <modernizer-maven-annotations.version>1.8.0</modernizer-maven-annotations.version>
 
diff --git a/providers/google-cloud-storage/src/main/java/org/jclouds/googlecloudstorage/handlers/GoogleCloudStorageClientErrorRetryHandler.java b/providers/google-cloud-storage/src/main/java/org/jclouds/googlecloudstorage/handlers/GoogleCloudStorageClientErrorRetryHandler.java
index f47ff4cde2..013071455d 100644
--- a/providers/google-cloud-storage/src/main/java/org/jclouds/googlecloudstorage/handlers/GoogleCloudStorageClientErrorRetryHandler.java
+++ b/providers/google-cloud-storage/src/main/java/org/jclouds/googlecloudstorage/handlers/GoogleCloudStorageClientErrorRetryHandler.java
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package org.jclouds.googlecloudstorage.handlers;
 
 import javax.inject.Singleton;
+import javax.ws.rs.core.Response.Status;
 
 import org.jclouds.http.HttpCommand;
 import org.jclouds.http.HttpResponse;
@@ -27,10 +28,6 @@ import com.google.inject.Inject;
 
 @Singleton
 public final class GoogleCloudStorageClientErrorRetryHandler implements HttpRetryHandler {
-   /** The user has sent too many requests in a given amount of time ("rate limiting"). */
-   // TODO: remove when upgrading to jax-rs api 2.1
-   private static final int TOO_MANY_REQUESTS = 429;
-
    private final BackoffLimitedRetryHandler backoffHandler;
 
    @Inject
@@ -40,7 +37,7 @@ public final class GoogleCloudStorageClientErrorRetryHandler implements HttpRetr
 
    @Override
    public boolean shouldRetryRequest(HttpCommand command, HttpResponse response) {
-      if (response.getStatusCode() == TOO_MANY_REQUESTS) {
+      if (response.getStatusCode() == Status.TOO_MANY_REQUESTS.getStatusCode()) {
          return backoffHandler.shouldRetryRequest(command, response);
       } else {
          return false;