diff --git a/samples/beam/requirements.txt b/samples/beam/requirements.txt
index 0e3050c10..5f8a769a8 100644
--- a/samples/beam/requirements.txt
+++ b/samples/beam/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 apache-beam===2.46.0; python_version == '3.7'
 apache-beam==2.52.0; python_version >= '3.8'
-google-cloud-bigtable==2.21.0
+google-cloud-bigtable==2.17.0
 google-cloud-core==2.4.1