diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci-package.yml b/.github/workflows/ci-package.yml
index c01389e7..832b45d5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci-package.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci-package.yml
@@ -59,3 +59,18 @@ jobs:
           grep -E "strix/bin/strix-tui" archive.txt >/dev/null
           grep -E "'google\.auth\.transport\.requests'" archive.txt >/dev/null
           grep -E "'boto3\.session'" archive.txt >/dev/null
+      - name: Binary reaches Vertex AI and Bedrock authentication
+        env:
+          STRIX_TELEMETRY: "false"
+          STRIX_IMAGE: alpine:3.20
+          VERTEXAI_PROJECT: strix-ci
+          VERTEXAI_LOCATION: us-central1
+          AWS_REGION: us-east-1
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p /tmp/target && echo 'print("hi")' > /tmp/target/app.py
+          STRIX_LLM=vertex_ai/gemini-2.5-pro dist/strix -n -t /tmp/target --scan-mode quick > vertex.log 2>&1 || true
+          grep -q "DefaultCredentialsError" vertex.log
+          ! grep -q "No module named" vertex.log
+          STRIX_LLM=bedrock/anthropic.claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620-v1:0 dist/strix -n -t /tmp/target --scan-mode quick > bedrock.log 2>&1 || true
+          grep -q "Unable to locate credentials" bedrock.log
+          ! grep -q "No module named" bedrock.log
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ffa2aa51..d154810b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "openai>=2.45.0,<3",
   "litellm>=1.101.0",
   "google-auth>=2.0.0",
+  "boto3>=1.28.0",
   "pydantic>=2.11.3",
   "pydantic-settings>=2.13.0",
   "rich",
diff --git a/tests/test_provider_dependencies.py b/tests/test_provider_dependencies.py
index 3e8ef9eb..4dd87cc6 100644
--- a/tests/test_provider_dependencies.py
+++ b/tests/test_provider_dependencies.py
@@ -16,10 +16,11 @@ def _pyproject() -> dict[str, object]:
     return tomllib.loads((ROOT / "pyproject.toml").read_text(encoding="utf-8"))
 
 
-def test_google_auth_is_a_regular_dependency() -> None:
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("package", ["google-auth", "boto3"])
+def test_provider_packages_are_regular_dependencies(package: str) -> None:
     project = _pyproject()["project"]
     assert isinstance(project, dict)
-    assert any(req.startswith("google-auth") for req in project["dependencies"])
+    assert any(req.startswith(package) for req in project["dependencies"])
     assert "optional-dependencies" not in project
 
 
diff --git a/uv.lock b/uv.lock
index 0936229c..e53c32d0 100644
--- a/uv.lock
+++ b/uv.lock
@@ -2389,6 +2389,7 @@ name = "strix-agent"
 version = "1.6.2"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
+    { name = "boto3" },
     { name = "caido-sdk-client" },
     { name = "cryptography" },
     { name = "cvss" },
@@ -2422,6 +2423,7 @@ dev = [
 
 [package.metadata]
 requires-dist = [
+    { name = "boto3", specifier = ">=1.28.0" },
     { name = "caido-sdk-client", specifier = ">=0.2.0" },
     { name = "cryptography", specifier = ">=48.0.1,<49" },
     { name = "cvss", specifier = ">=3.2" },