diff --git a/llama-index-integrations/embeddings/llama-index-embeddings-sagemaker-endpoint/llama_index/embeddings/sagemaker_endpoint/utils.py b/llama-index-integrations/embeddings/llama-index-embeddings-sagemaker-endpoint/llama_index/embeddings/sagemaker_endpoint/utils.py
index dd0346056ae31..4f7602ebde74e 100644
--- a/llama-index-integrations/embeddings/llama-index-embeddings-sagemaker-endpoint/llama_index/embeddings/sagemaker_endpoint/utils.py
+++ b/llama-index-integrations/embeddings/llama-index-embeddings-sagemaker-endpoint/llama_index/embeddings/sagemaker_endpoint/utils.py
@@ -46,5 +46,4 @@ def serialize_input(self, request: List[str], model_kwargs: dict) -> bytes:
         return request_str.encode("utf-8")
 
     def deserialize_output(self, response: "StreamingBody") -> List[List[float]]:
-        response_json = json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8"))
-        return response_json
+        return json.loads(response.read().decode("utf-8"))