This document provides information about the AWS IoT device SDK for Java V2. This SDK is built on the AWS Common Runtime Consuming this SDK via Maven is the preferred method of consuming it and using ...

AWS recently announced the general availability of the Common Runtime (CRT) HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. The new asynchronous client provides faster SDK startup time and a smaller ...

You can see that usage is still pretty concise compared to using the AWS SDK v1 or v2 for Java. There's a significant advantage in using the lightweight client in a Java Lambda.

AWS unveils a new performance optimization feature called Lambda SnapStart, designed to improve startup times for latency-sensitive applications, and initially aimed at Java developers.