diff --git a/sdk/cosmos/azure-cosmos/requirements.txt b/sdk/cosmos/azure-cosmos/requirements.txt
index f21e3797be8f..5d92f68f2287 100644
--- a/sdk/cosmos/azure-cosmos/requirements.txt
+++ b/sdk/cosmos/azure-cosmos/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-requests >=2.10.0
-six >=1.6
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+azure-core<2.0.0,>=1.0.0b3
+six>=1.6
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diff --git a/sdk/cosmos/azure-cosmos/setup.py b/sdk/cosmos/azure-cosmos/setup.py
index a2bc049eaf9d..3dab953d7475 100644
--- a/sdk/cosmos/azure-cosmos/setup.py
+++ b/sdk/cosmos/azure-cosmos/setup.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
     ),
     install_requires=[
       'six >=1.6',
-      'azure-core<2.0.0,>=1.0.0b2'
+      'azure-core<2.0.0,>=1.0.0b3'
     ],
     extras_require={
       ":python_version<'3.0'": ["azure-nspkg"],
diff --git a/shared_requirements.txt b/shared_requirements.txt
index c03066fba99e..896c7089826c 100644
--- a/shared_requirements.txt
+++ b/shared_requirements.txt
@@ -100,3 +100,4 @@ aiohttp>=3.0
 aiodns>=2.0
 python-dateutil>=2.8.0
 six>=1.6
+#override azure-cosmos azure-core<2.0.0,>=1.0.0b3