diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index cf4c88dea..bc83ec975 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1054,7 +1054,6 @@ name = "buzz-db"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
  "async-trait",
- "axum",
  "buzz-auth",
  "buzz-core",
  "buzz-datastore-tracing",
@@ -1062,6 +1061,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "chrono",
  "dashmap",
  "hex",
+ "http",
  "metrics",
  "metrics-util",
  "nostr 0.44.7",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c228a754d..4072b9cfa 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ tokio-util  = { version = "0.7", features = ["rt", "codec"] }
 
 # HTTP + WebSocket
 axum        = { version = "0.8", features = ["ws", "macros"] }
+http        = "1"
 tower       = { version = "0.5", features = ["timeout", "util", "limit"] }
 tower-http  = { version = "0.6", features = ["trace", "cors", "compression-gzip", "limit", "timeout", "fs"] }
 
diff --git a/crates/buzz-db/Cargo.toml b/crates/buzz-db/Cargo.toml
index 2db6e1d9e..742d96150 100644
--- a/crates/buzz-db/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/buzz-db/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ buzz-auth = { workspace = true }
 buzz-core = { workspace = true }
 buzz-datastore-tracing = { workspace = true }
 async-trait = "0.1"
-axum        = { workspace = true }
+http        = { workspace = true }
 buzz-media = { workspace = true }
 dashmap     = { workspace = true }
 sqlx        = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/crates/buzz-db/src/authorization_restore.rs b/crates/buzz-db/src/authorization_restore.rs
index 652847287..64bdcb690 100644
--- a/crates/buzz-db/src/authorization_restore.rs
+++ b/crates/buzz-db/src/authorization_restore.rs
@@ -656,16 +656,13 @@ impl RestoreStore for S3RestoreStore {
         if u64::try_from(body.len()).unwrap_or(u64::MAX) > MAX_RECORD_BYTES {
             return Err(());
         }
-        let mut headers = axum::http::HeaderMap::new();
+        let mut headers = http::HeaderMap::new();
         match expected_etag {
             Some(etag) => {
-                headers.insert(axum::http::header::IF_MATCH, etag.parse().map_err(|_| ())?);
+                headers.insert(http::header::IF_MATCH, etag.parse().map_err(|_| ())?);
             }
             None => {
-                headers.insert(
-                    axum::http::header::IF_NONE_MATCH,
-                    "*".parse().map_err(|_| ())?,
-                );
+                headers.insert(http::header::IF_NONE_MATCH, "*".parse().map_err(|_| ())?);
             }
         }
         match self