diff --git a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-aws/pom.xml b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-aws/pom.xml
index 815766a846..460acae247 100644
--- a/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-aws/pom.xml
+++ b/spring-boot-modules/spring-boot-aws/pom.xml
@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@
     <name>spring-boot-aws</name>
     <description>spring-boot-aws</description>
 
+    <!-- "sam build" needs all the dependencies including its parent project. Hence, we cannot use parent-boot in this case -->
     <parent>
-        <groupId>com.baeldung.spring-boot-modules</groupId>
-        <artifactId>spring-boot-modules</artifactId>
-        <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
+        <version>2.7.11</version>
     </parent>
 
     <dependencies>