diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d970f23f38..39d9111eb5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
 	</distributionManagement>
 	<properties>
 		<animal-sniffer.version>1.15</animal-sniffer.version>
-		<aws.java.sdk.version>1.11.6</aws.java.sdk.version>
+		<aws.java.sdk.version>1.12.529</aws.java.sdk.version>
 		<!--
 			Maximum number of checkstyle violations allowed. Build will fail
 			if there are more than this number of violations. Feel free to
@@ -789,7 +789,7 @@
 							<phase>test-compile</phase>
 							<configuration>
 								<rules>
-									<NoPackageCyclesRule implementation="de.andrena.tools.nopackagecycles.NoPackageCyclesRule" />
+									<NoPackageCyclesRule implementation="de.andrena.tools.nopackagecycles.NoPackageCyclesRule"/>
 								</rules>
 							</configuration>
 						</execution>