diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 52fc85dadeea994cabd8c3710ec3f1657f1ff317..9dfae2175b9d4867b175d21c73a3685e96b0b6dc 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ setup(
         # requests required by cloud storage file backend
         "requests>=2.22.0",
         "python-jose[cryptography]==3.2.0",
-        "google-cloud-storage==1.43.0",
+        "google-cloud-storage>=3.0.0,<4.0.0",
         # required minimum version for oauth backend
         "google-auth>=2.3.2,<3.0dev",
     ],