diff --git a/requirements/base.txt b/requirements/base.txt
index 35ecafaa5b..61b978f729 100644
--- a/requirements/base.txt
+++ b/requirements/base.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 six~=1.11.0
+chevron~=0.12
 click~=6.7
 enum34~=1.1.6; python_version<"3.4"
 Flask~=1.0.2
@@ -10,5 +11,4 @@ docker>=3.3.0
 dateparser~=0.7
 python-dateutil~=2.6
 pathlib2~=2.3.2; python_version<"3.4"
-pystache~=0.5
 
diff --git a/samcli/commands/local/lib/generated_sample_events/events.py b/samcli/commands/local/lib/generated_sample_events/events.py
index 2046fc4698..9f159c70ab 100644
--- a/samcli/commands/local/lib/generated_sample_events/events.py
+++ b/samcli/commands/local/lib/generated_sample_events/events.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 import base64
 from requests.utils import quote
 
-import pystache
+from chevron import renderer
 
 
 class Events(object):
@@ -126,5 +126,4 @@ def generate_event(self, service_name, event_type, values_to_sub):
         data = json.dumps(data, indent=2)
 
         # return the substituted file
-        renderer = pystache.Renderer()
         return renderer.render(data, values_to_sub)