diff --git a/src/cohere/manually_maintained/cohere_aws/client.py b/src/cohere/manually_maintained/cohere_aws/client.py
index 60addcc7d..93be85e87 100644
--- a/src/cohere/manually_maintained/cohere_aws/client.py
+++ b/src/cohere/manually_maintained/cohere_aws/client.py
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ def __init__(
         """
         if not AWS_DEPS_AVAILABLE:
             raise CohereError("AWS dependencies not available. Please install boto3 and sagemaker.")
-        self._client = boto3.client()
+        self._client = boto3.client("sagemaker-runtime", region_name=aws_region)
+        self._service_client = boto3.client("sagemaker", region_name=aws_region)
         if os.environ.get('AWS_DEFAULT_REGION') is None:
             os.environ['AWS_DEFAULT_REGION'] = aws_region
         self._sess = sage.Session(sagemaker_client=self._service_client)