diff --git a/opencga-catalog/pom.xml b/opencga-catalog/pom.xml
index a7eb78947d..e4e11a7b61 100644
--- a/opencga-catalog/pom.xml
+++ b/opencga-catalog/pom.xml
@@ -200,14 +200,6 @@
             <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
             <artifactId>azure-client-runtime</artifactId>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
-            <artifactId>azure</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.microsoft.azure</groupId>
-            <artifactId>azure-batch</artifactId>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.jsonwebtoken</groupId>
             <artifactId>jjwt-jackson</artifactId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e5500bbadd..a7cb72c058 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
         <json-smart.version>2.3</json-smart.version>
         <gson.version>2.8.0</gson.version>
         <nimbus-jose-jwt.version>9.31</nimbus-jose-jwt.version>
-        <azure-client.version>1.5.4</azure-client.version>
+        <azure-client.version>1.7.14</azure-client.version>
         <azure-batch.version>4.0.1</azure-batch.version>
         <!-- Cannot upgrade the version until we upgrade GRPC version -->
         <azure.version>1.13.0</azure.version>