diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 53c200b42dcc5a8d8bdc850aa8c158fb6caf4128..8abfb6ea28770e4ef24db92836e7edefe8395120 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,7 +8,5 @@ This module contains docs, scripts and code to enable SilverStripe to run on AWS
 
 Snowmachine is our proof of concept on for provision stacks on AWS.
 
-It uses AWS CloudFormation and the AWS PHP SDK. For installation and usage, see the README at
-[gitlab/aws/silverstripe-aws-snowmachine]().
-
-It is a composer dev requirement, so you will need to composer with the `--dev` flag.
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+It uses AWS CloudFormation and the AWS PHP SDK. For installation and usage, see the 
+[Snowmachine README](https://gitlab.silverstripe.com/aws/silverstripe-aws-snowmachine/blob/master/README.md).
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diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 6502212c538d1384f8da29793d94cc1b02d6df7b..25ea355e1aa87c6de13b7bd7b972d074e9ce40fe 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -17,9 +17,7 @@
         "url": "ssh://git@gitlab.silverstripe.com:2222/aws/silverstripe-aws-snowmachine.git"
     },
     "require": {
-        "aws/aws-sdk-php": "2.*"
-    },
-    "require-dev": {
+        "aws/aws-sdk-php": "2.*",
         "silverstripe/aws-snowmachine": "*"
     },
     "extra": {