diff --git a/examples/bedrock-agent-fastapi/app/requirements.txt b/examples/bedrock-agent-fastapi/app/requirements.txt
index 61205be5..eb911009 100644
--- a/examples/bedrock-agent-fastapi/app/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/bedrock-agent-fastapi/app/requirements.txt
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ PyYAML==6.0.1
 s3transfer==0.10.0
 six==1.16.0
 sniffio==1.3.0
-starlette==0.36.3
+starlette==0.40.0
 typing_extensions==4.9.0
 urllib3==2.2.2
 uvicorn==0.27.0