diff --git a/requirements-docs.txt b/requirements-docs.txt
index 2211707c5035..68d63109d59a 100644
--- a/requirements-docs.txt
+++ b/requirements-docs.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 jinja2<3.1
 
 
-docutils>=0.10,<0.17
+docutils>=0.10,<0.21
 Sphinx==1.4.9
 -e .
 # alabaster version 0.7.13 requires Sphinx>1.6
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b5dd6303d58f..1fc4aafc1228 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def find_version(*file_paths):
 
 install_requires = [
     'botocore==1.31.52',
-    'docutils>=0.10,<0.17',
+    'docutils>=0.10,<0.21',
     's3transfer>=0.6.0,<0.7.0',
     'PyYAML>=3.10,<6.1',
     'colorama>=0.2.5,<0.4.5',