diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 8bc333b0..e13b75de 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 *.snap linguist-generated
 /.eslintrc.json linguist-generated
 /.gitattributes linguist-generated
-/.github/dependabot.yml linguist-generated
 /.github/pull_request_template.md linguist-generated
 /.github/workflows/auto-approve.yml linguist-generated
 /.github/workflows/bandit.yml linguist-generated
diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index edf61787..00000000
--- a/.github/dependabot.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-# ~~ Generated by projen. To modify, edit .projenrc.ts and run "npx projen".
-
-version: 2
-updates:
-  - package-ecosystem: npm
-    versioning-strategy: lockfile-only
-    directory: /
-    schedule:
-      interval: weekly
-    labels:
-      - auto-approve
-    groups:
-      dev-dependencies:
-        patterns:
-          - "*"
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index b99f4b30..aa64e376 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -91,6 +91,5 @@ test/patterns/gen-ai/aws-llama-index-data-loader/integ-tests/aws-llama-index-dat
 !/.github/workflows/bandit.yml
 !/.github/workflows/commitlint.yml
 !/.github/workflows/code-generation.yml
-!/.github/dependabot.yml
 !/.projenrc.ts
 !/src/common/props/DockerLambdaCustomProps.ts
diff --git a/.projen/files.json b/.projen/files.json
index 017c66c4..351dccb2 100644
--- a/.projen/files.json
+++ b/.projen/files.json
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
   "files": [
     ".eslintrc.json",
     ".gitattributes",
-    ".github/dependabot.yml",
     ".github/pull_request_template.md",
     ".github/workflows/auto-approve.yml",
     ".github/workflows/bandit.yml",
diff --git a/.projenrc.ts b/.projenrc.ts
index 1665d219..d5e981fa 100644
--- a/.projenrc.ts
+++ b/.projenrc.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
  */
 import { ProjenStruct, Struct } from '@mrgrain/jsii-struct-builder';
 import { JsonPatch, awscdk, ReleasableCommits } from 'projen';
-import { DependabotScheduleInterval, VersioningStrategy } from 'projen/lib/github';
 import { NpmAccess } from 'projen/lib/javascript';
 import { buildUpgradeMainPRCustomJob } from './projenrc/github-jobs';
 import {
@@ -278,16 +277,4 @@ if (postCompile) {
   postCompile.exec('npx typedoc --plugin typedoc-plugin-markdown --out apidocs --readme none --categoryOrder "Namespaces,Classes,Interfaces,*" --disableSources ./src/index.ts');
 }
 
-project.github?.addDependabot({
-  versioningStrategy: VersioningStrategy.LOCKFILE_ONLY,
-  ignoreProjen: false,
-  scheduleInterval: DependabotScheduleInterval.WEEKLY,
-  groups: {
-    ['dev-dependencies']: {
-      patterns: ['*'],
-    },
-  },
-  labels: ['auto-approve'],
-});
-
 project.synth();