diff --git a/lambda-runtime/Cargo.toml b/lambda-runtime/Cargo.toml
index 8745b59f..c4b8e35b 100644
--- a/lambda-runtime/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lambda-runtime/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ hyper-util = { workspace = true, features = [
     "http1",
     "tokio",
 ] }
-lambda_runtime_api_client = { version = "0.11", path = "../lambda-runtime-api-client" }
+lambda_runtime_api_client = { version = "0.11", path = "../lambda-runtime-api-client", default-features = false }
 pin-project = "1"
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive", "rc"] }
 serde_json = "^1"