diff --git a/exporter/datadogexporter/go.mod b/exporter/datadogexporter/go.mod
index 5d4cab478a73..184df2ecdb9c 100644
--- a/exporter/datadogexporter/go.mod
+++ b/exporter/datadogexporter/go.mod
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/pkg/trace v0.38.0-rc.3.0.20220804102556-2fec6abdb5f7
 	github.com/DataDog/gohai v0.0.0-20220718130825-1776f9beb9cc
 	github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-go/detectors/gcp v0.32.5
-	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.44.72
+	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.54.16
 	github.com/cenkalti/backoff/v4 v4.1.3
 	github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/internal/aws/ecsutil v0.57.2
 	github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/internal/k8sconfig v0.57.2
diff --git a/exporter/datadogexporter/go.sum b/exporter/datadogexporter/go.sum
index 0c0a2385e35d..8878438e782a 100644
--- a/exporter/datadogexporter/go.sum
+++ b/exporter/datadogexporter/go.sum
@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ github.com/armon/go-metrics v0.0.0-20180917152333-f0300d1749da/go.mod h1:Q73ZrmV
 github.com/armon/go-radix v0.0.0-20180808171621-7fddfc383310/go.mod h1:ufUuZ+zHj4x4TnLV4JWEpy2hxWSpsRywHrMgIH9cCH8=
 github.com/armon/go-socks5 v0.0.0-20160902184237-e75332964ef5/go.mod h1:wHh0iHkYZB8zMSxRWpUBQtwG5a7fFgvEO+odwuTv2gs=
 github.com/asaskevich/govalidator v0.0.0-20190424111038-f61b66f89f4a/go.mod h1:lB+ZfQJz7igIIfQNfa7Ml4HSf2uFQQRzpGGRXenZAgY=
-github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.44.72 h1:i7J5XT7pjBjtl1OrdIhiQHzsG89wkZCcM1HhyK++3DI=
-github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.44.72/go.mod h1:y4AeaBuwd2Lk+GepC1E9v0qOiTws0MIWAX4oIKwKHZo=
+github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.54.16 h1:+B9zGaVwOUU6AO9Sy99VjTMDPthWx10HjB08hjaBHIc=
+github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.54.16/go.mod h1:eRwEWoyTWFMVYVQzKMNHWP5/RV4xIUGMQfXQHfHkpNU=
 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2 v1.9.2/go.mod h1:cK/D0BBs0b/oWPIcX/Z/obahJK1TT7IPVjy53i/mX/4=
 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/config v1.8.3/go.mod h1:4AEiLtAb8kLs7vgw2ZV3p2VZ1+hBavOc84hqxVNpCyw=
 github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/credentials v1.4.3/go.mod h1:FNNC6nQZQUuyhq5aE5c7ata8o9e4ECGmS4lAXC7o1mQ=