diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f8559f008..160ee2253 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5475,6 +5475,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "aws-sdk-kms",
  "aws-sdk-s3",
  "aws-smithy-runtime",
+ "aws-smithy-types",
  "bytes",
  "candle-core",
  "candle-nn",
diff --git a/rust/lancedb/Cargo.toml b/rust/lancedb/Cargo.toml
index f9c79b042..0bca3327f 100644
--- a/rust/lancedb/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust/lancedb/Cargo.toml
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ serde_json = { workspace = true }
 async-openai = { version = "0.20.0", optional = true }
 serde_with = { version = "3.8.1" }
 tempfile = { workspace = true }
+# Smithy JSON 0.63 still requires the pre-1.7 Document representation.
+aws-smithy-types = { version = ">=1.3.6, <1.7", optional = true }
 aws-sdk-bedrockruntime = { version = "1.27.0", optional = true }
 # For remote feature
 reqwest = { version = "0.12.0", default-features = false, features = [
@@ -123,6 +125,7 @@ pprof = { version = "0.14", features = ["flamegraph"] }
 [features]
 default = []
 aws = [
+    "dep:aws-smithy-types",
     "lance/aws",
     "lance-io/aws",
     "lance-namespace-impls/dir-aws",
@@ -169,7 +172,7 @@ metrics = ["dep:metrics", "lance/metrics", "lance-io/metrics"]
 metrics-otel = ["metrics", "dep:metrics-util"]
 fp16kernels = ["lance-linalg/fp16kernels"]
 s3-test = []
-bedrock = ["dep:aws-sdk-bedrockruntime"]
+bedrock = ["dep:aws-sdk-bedrockruntime", "dep:aws-smithy-types"]
 openai = ["dep:async-openai", "dep:reqwest"]
 polars = ["dep:polars-arrow", "dep:polars"]
 sentence-transformers = [