diff --git a/aws-lambda/pom.xml b/aws-lambda/pom.xml
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+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+		 xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+	<groupId>com.baeldung</groupId>
+	<artifactId>aws-lambda</artifactId>
+	<version>0.1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<packaging>jar</packaging>
+	<name>aws-lambda</name>
+
+	<dependencies>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
+			<artifactId>aws-lambda-java-core</artifactId>
+			<version>1.1.0</version>
+		</dependency>
+
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
+			<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
+			<version>2.5</version>
+		</dependency>
+	</dependencies>
+
+	<build>
+		<plugins>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+				<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
+				<version>2.3</version>
+				<configuration>
+					<createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
+				</configuration>
+				<executions>
+					<execution>
+						<phase>package</phase>
+						<goals>
+							<goal>shade</goal>
+						</goals>
+					</execution>
+				</executions>
+			</plugin>
+		</plugins>
+	</build>
+</project>
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diff --git a/aws-lambda/src/main/java/com/baeldung/LambdaMethodHandler.java b/aws-lambda/src/main/java/com/baeldung/LambdaMethodHandler.java
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+package com.baeldung;
+
+import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
+
+public class LambdaMethodHandler {
+    public String handleRequest(String input, Context context) {
+        context.getLogger().log("Input: " + input);
+        return "Hello World - " + input;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/aws-lambda/src/main/java/com/baeldung/LambdaRequestHandler.java b/aws-lambda/src/main/java/com/baeldung/LambdaRequestHandler.java
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+package com.baeldung;
+
+import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
+import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler;
+
+public class LambdaRequestHandler implements RequestHandler<String, String> {
+    public String handleRequest(String input, Context context) {
+        context.getLogger().log("Input: " + input);
+        return "Hello World - " + input;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/aws-lambda/src/main/java/com/baeldung/LambdaRequestStreamHandler.java b/aws-lambda/src/main/java/com/baeldung/LambdaRequestStreamHandler.java
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+package com.baeldung;
+
+import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
+import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler;
+import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestStreamHandler;
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+public class LambdaRequestStreamHandler implements RequestStreamHandler {
+
+    public void handleRequest(InputStream inputStream, OutputStream outputStream, Context context) throws IOException {
+        String input = IOUtils.toString(inputStream, "UTF-8");
+        outputStream.write(("Hello World - " + input).getBytes());
+    }
+}