diff --git a/providers/amazon/pyproject.toml b/providers/amazon/pyproject.toml
index 1385c77492033..a1595cb8b8d8e 100644
--- a/providers/amazon/pyproject.toml
+++ b/providers/amazon/pyproject.toml
@@ -151,6 +151,9 @@ dependencies = [
 "common.messaging" = [
     "apache-airflow-providers-common-messaging>=2.0.0"
 ]
+"sqlalchemy" = [
+    "sqlalchemy>=1.4.49",
+]
 
 [dependency-groups]
 dev = [
diff --git a/providers/amazon/src/airflow/providers/amazon/aws/hooks/athena_sql.py b/providers/amazon/src/airflow/providers/amazon/aws/hooks/athena_sql.py
index 451664a467c7f..e12589a75d12d 100644
--- a/providers/amazon/src/airflow/providers/amazon/aws/hooks/athena_sql.py
+++ b/providers/amazon/src/airflow/providers/amazon/aws/hooks/athena_sql.py
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@
 from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
 
 import pyathena
-from sqlalchemy.engine.url import URL
+
+try:
+    from sqlalchemy.engine.url import URL
+except ImportError:
+    URL = None
 
 from airflow.providers.amazon.aws.hooks.base_aws import AwsBaseHook
 from airflow.providers.amazon.aws.utils.connection_wrapper import AwsConnectionWrapper
@@ -152,9 +156,15 @@ def _get_conn_params(self) -> dict[str, str | None]:
 
     def get_uri(self) -> str:
         """Overridden to use the Athena dialect as driver name."""
+        from airflow.exceptions import AirflowOptionalProviderFeatureException
+
+        if URL is None:
+            raise AirflowOptionalProviderFeatureException(
+                "sqlalchemy is required to generate the connection URI. "
+                "Install it with: pip install 'apache-airflow-providers-amazon[sqlalchemy]'"
+            )
         conn_params = self._get_conn_params()
         creds = self.get_credentials(region_name=conn_params["region_name"])
-
         return URL.create(
             f"awsathena+{conn_params['driver']}",
             username=creds.access_key,
diff --git a/providers/amazon/src/airflow/providers/amazon/aws/hooks/redshift_sql.py b/providers/amazon/src/airflow/providers/amazon/aws/hooks/redshift_sql.py
index ef0dffcbd4b20..33f2e4c83b2a8 100644
--- a/providers/amazon/src/airflow/providers/amazon/aws/hooks/redshift_sql.py
+++ b/providers/amazon/src/airflow/providers/amazon/aws/hooks/redshift_sql.py
@@ -22,9 +22,14 @@
 import redshift_connector
 import tenacity
 from redshift_connector import Connection as RedshiftConnection, InterfaceError, OperationalError
-from sqlalchemy import create_engine
-from sqlalchemy.engine.url import URL
 
+try:
+    from sqlalchemy import create_engine
+    from sqlalchemy.engine.url import URL
+except ImportError:
+    URL = create_engine = None
+
+from airflow.exceptions import AirflowOptionalProviderFeatureException
 from airflow.providers.amazon.aws.hooks.base_aws import AwsBaseHook
 from airflow.providers.common.compat.sdk import AirflowException
 from airflow.providers.common.sql.hooks.sql import DbApiHook
@@ -151,6 +156,11 @@ def get_iam_token(self, conn: Connection) -> tuple[str, str, int]:
 
     def get_uri(self) -> str:
         """Overridden to use the Redshift dialect as driver name."""
+        if URL is None:
+            raise AirflowOptionalProviderFeatureException(
+                "sqlalchemy is required to generate the connection URI. "
+                "Install it with: pip install 'apache-airflow-providers-amazon[sqlalchemy]'"
+            )
         conn_params = self._get_conn_params()
 
         if "user" in conn_params:
@@ -174,6 +184,11 @@ def get_uri(self) -> str:
 
     def get_sqlalchemy_engine(self, engine_kwargs=None):
         """Overridden to pass Redshift-specific arguments."""
+        if create_engine is None:
+            raise AirflowOptionalProviderFeatureException(
+                "sqlalchemy is required for creating the engine. Install it with"
+                ": pip install 'apache-airflow-providers-amazon[sqlalchemy]'"
+            )
         conn_kwargs = self.conn.extra_dejson
         if engine_kwargs is None:
             engine_kwargs = {}