diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index a351ebff5..4f2e5562e 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@
         <aspectj.version>1.9.7</aspectj.version>
         <aws.sdk.version>2.17.179</aws.sdk.version>
         <aws.xray.recorder.version>2.11.1</aws.xray.recorder.version>
-        <payloadoffloading-common.version>1.1.1</payloadoffloading-common.version>
+        <payloadoffloading-common.version>2.1.2</payloadoffloading-common.version>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <lambda.core.version>1.2.1</lambda.core.version>
         <lambda.events.version>3.11.0</lambda.events.version>
diff --git a/powertools-sqs/pom.xml b/powertools-sqs/pom.xml
index bdeafe273..76abe5a93 100644
--- a/powertools-sqs/pom.xml
+++ b/powertools-sqs/pom.xml
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@
             <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
             <artifactId>aws-lambda-java-core</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>software.amazon.payloadoffloading</groupId>
+            <artifactId>payloadoffloading-common</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
             <artifactId>aws-lambda-java-events</artifactId>
diff --git a/powertools-sqs/src/main/java/software/amazon/lambda/powertools/sqs/internal/SqsLargeMessageAspect.java b/powertools-sqs/src/main/java/software/amazon/lambda/powertools/sqs/internal/SqsLargeMessageAspect.java
index 072d903d0..588d434d7 100644
--- a/powertools-sqs/src/main/java/software/amazon/lambda/powertools/sqs/internal/SqsLargeMessageAspect.java
+++ b/powertools-sqs/src/main/java/software/amazon/lambda/powertools/sqs/internal/SqsLargeMessageAspect.java
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.function.Function;
 
 import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ public static List<PayloadS3Pointer> processMessages(final List<SQSMessage> reco
         for (SQSMessage sqsMessage : records) {
             if (isBodyLargeMessagePointer(sqsMessage.getBody())) {
 
-                PayloadS3Pointer s3Pointer = PayloadS3Pointer.fromJson(sqsMessage.getBody())
+                PayloadS3Pointer s3Pointer = Optional.ofNullable(PayloadS3Pointer.fromJson(sqsMessage.getBody()))
                         .orElseThrow(() -> new FailedProcessingLargePayloadException(format("Failed processing SQS body to extract S3 details. [ %s ].", sqsMessage.getBody())));
 
                 ResponseInputStream<GetObjectResponse> s3Object = callS3Gracefully(s3Pointer, pointer -> {
diff --git a/powertools-sqs/src/main/java/software/amazon/payloadoffloading/PayloadS3Pointer.java b/powertools-sqs/src/main/java/software/amazon/payloadoffloading/PayloadS3Pointer.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 078b9a773..000000000
--- a/powertools-sqs/src/main/java/software/amazon/payloadoffloading/PayloadS3Pointer.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-package software.amazon.payloadoffloading;
-
-import java.util.Optional;
-
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationFeature;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectWriter;
-import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
-import org.slf4j.Logger;
-import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
-
-import static java.util.Optional.empty;
-import static java.util.Optional.ofNullable;
-
-public class PayloadS3Pointer {
-    private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PayloadS3Pointer.class);
-    private static final ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
-
-    private String s3BucketName;
-    private String s3Key;
-
-    static {
-        objectMapper.configure(DeserializationFeature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false);
-        objectMapper.configure(SerializationFeature.FAIL_ON_EMPTY_BEANS, false);
-        objectMapper.activateDefaultTyping(objectMapper.getPolymorphicTypeValidator(), ObjectMapper.DefaultTyping.NON_FINAL);
-    }
-
-    private PayloadS3Pointer() {
-
-    }
-
-    public String getS3BucketName() {
-        return this.s3BucketName;
-    }
-
-    public String getS3Key() {
-        return this.s3Key;
-    }
-
-    public static Optional<PayloadS3Pointer> fromJson(String s3PointerJson) {
-        try {
-            return ofNullable(objectMapper.readValue(s3PointerJson, PayloadS3Pointer.class));
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            LOG.error("Failed to read the S3 object pointer from given string.", e);
-            return empty();
-        }
-    }
-
-    public Optional<String> toJson() {
-        try {
-            ObjectWriter objectWriter = objectMapper.writer();
-            return ofNullable(objectWriter.writeValueAsString(this));
-
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            LOG.error("Failed to convert S3 object pointer to text.", e);
-            return empty();
-        }
-    }
-}