diff --git a/app/v2/notifications/post_notifications.py b/app/v2/notifications/post_notifications.py
index 01cf21a56..c5ea8d2b3 100644
--- a/app/v2/notifications/post_notifications.py
+++ b/app/v2/notifications/post_notifications.py
@@ -232,9 +232,10 @@ def process_sms_or_email_notification(
                 reply_to_text=reply_to_text
             )
             return resp
-        except botocore.exceptions.ClientError:
-            # if SQS cannot put the task on the queue, it's probably because the notification body was too long and it
-            # went over SQS's 256kb message limit. If so, we
+        except (botocore.exceptions.ClientError, botocore.parsers.ResponseParserError):
+            # If SQS cannot put the task on the queue, it's probably because the notification body was too long and it
+            # went over SQS's 256kb message limit. If the body is very large, it may exceed the HTTP max content length;
+            # the exception we get here isn't handled correctly by botocore - we get a ResponseParserError instead.
             current_app.logger.info(
                 f'Notification {notification_id} failed to save to high volume queue. Using normal flow instead'
             )
diff --git a/tests/app/v2/notifications/test_post_notifications.py b/tests/app/v2/notifications/test_post_notifications.py
index 7d500d84a..1164eb34f 100644
--- a/tests/app/v2/notifications/test_post_notifications.py
+++ b/tests/app/v2/notifications/test_post_notifications.py
@@ -1068,13 +1068,21 @@ def test_post_notifications_saves_email_or_sms_to_queue(client, notify_db_sessio
         assert len(Notification.query.all()) == 0
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("exception", [
+    botocore.exceptions.ClientError({'some': 'json'}, 'some opname'),
+    botocore.parsers.ResponseParserError('exceeded max HTTP body length'),
+])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("notification_type", ("email", "sms"))
 def test_post_notifications_saves_email_or_sms_normally_if_saving_to_queue_fails(
-    client, notify_db_session, mocker, notification_type
+    client,
+    notify_db_session,
+    mocker,
+    notification_type,
+    exception
 ):
     save_task = mocker.patch(
         f"app.celery.tasks.save_api_{notification_type}.apply_async",
-        side_effect=botocore.exceptions.ClientError({'some': 'json'}, 'some opname')
+        side_effect=exception,
     )
     mock_send_task = mocker.patch(f'app.celery.provider_tasks.deliver_{notification_type}.apply_async')