diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0bd7ecb3..94a7c654 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ def find_version(*file_paths):
     version=find_version("python", "rpdk", "python", "__init__.py"),
     description=__doc__,
     long_description=read("README.md"),
+    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     author="Amazon Web Services",
     author_email="aws-cloudformation-developers@amazon.com",
     url="https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/aws-cloudformation-rpdk-python-plugin/",