diff --git a/test/integration/targets/setup_azure/tasks/main.yml b/test/integration/targets/setup_azure/tasks/main.yml
index 8aee658c1da..17132a497b7 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/setup_azure/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/test/integration/targets/setup_azure/tasks/main.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,2 @@
-- name: install cryptography requirement
-  # preempt the installation of cryptography from requirements-azure.txt to limit the version installed
-  # requests[security] requires cryptography >= 1.3.4
-  # cryptography 2.1 requires pip 8.1.2+
-  command: pip install cryptography>=1.3.4,<2.1
-
 - pip:
     requirements: '{{ role_path }}/../../../../packaging/requirements/requirements-azure.txt'