diff --git a/python/rpdk/java/templates/generate/HandlerWrapper.java b/python/rpdk/java/templates/generate/HandlerWrapper.java
index 3873d9ba..04ff6de2 100644
--- a/python/rpdk/java/templates/generate/HandlerWrapper.java
+++ b/python/rpdk/java/templates/generate/HandlerWrapper.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 package {{ package_name }};
 
 import com.amazonaws.AmazonServiceException;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.awscore.exception.AwsServiceException;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.PartitionMetadata;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.regions.Region;
 import software.amazon.cloudformation.Action;
@@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ public void testEntrypoint(
             response = invokeHandler(proxy, payload.getRequest(), payload.getAction(), payload.getCallbackContext());
         } catch (final BaseHandlerException e) {
             response = ProgressEvent.defaultFailureHandler(e, e.getErrorCode());
-        } catch (final AmazonServiceException e) {
+        } catch (final AmazonServiceException | AwsServiceException e) {
             response = ProgressEvent.defaultFailureHandler(e, HandlerErrorCode.GeneralServiceException);
         } catch (final Throwable e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
diff --git a/src/main/java/software/amazon/cloudformation/LambdaWrapper.java b/src/main/java/software/amazon/cloudformation/LambdaWrapper.java
index bfe18df7..5d1f7f9b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/software/amazon/cloudformation/LambdaWrapper.java
+++ b/src/main/java/software/amazon/cloudformation/LambdaWrapper.java
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.exception.ExceptionUtils;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
 import org.json.JSONTokener;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.awscore.exception.AwsServiceException;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.http.SdkHttpClient;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.http.apache.ApacheHttpClient;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.utils.StringUtils;
@@ -361,7 +362,7 @@ public void handleRequest(final InputStream inputStream, final OutputStream outp
             publishExceptionMetric(request.getAction(), e, e.getErrorCode());
             logUnhandledError(e.getMessage(), request, e);
             return ProgressEvent.defaultFailureHandler(e, e.getErrorCode());
-        } catch (final AmazonServiceException e) {
+        } catch (final AmazonServiceException | AwsServiceException e) {
             publishExceptionMetric(request.getAction(), e, HandlerErrorCode.GeneralServiceException);
             logUnhandledError("A downstream service error occurred", request, e);
             return ProgressEvent.defaultFailureHandler(e, HandlerErrorCode.GeneralServiceException);
diff --git a/src/test/java/software/amazon/cloudformation/LambdaWrapperTest.java b/src/test/java/software/amazon/cloudformation/LambdaWrapperTest.java
index b1eb20e1..c40c9a82 100755
--- a/src/test/java/software/amazon/cloudformation/LambdaWrapperTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/software/amazon/cloudformation/LambdaWrapperTest.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
 import org.mockito.Mock;
 import org.mockito.junit.jupiter.MockitoExtension;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.http.SdkHttpClient;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.cloudwatchlogs.model.CloudWatchLogsException;
 import software.amazon.cloudformation.exceptions.ResourceAlreadyExistsException;
 import software.amazon.cloudformation.exceptions.ResourceNotFoundException;
 import software.amazon.cloudformation.exceptions.TerminalException;
@@ -720,6 +721,40 @@ public void invokeHandler_throwsAmazonServiceException_returnsServiceException()
         }
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void invokeHandler_throwsSDK2ServiceException_returnsServiceException() throws IOException {
+        wrapper.setInvokeHandlerException(CloudWatchLogsException.builder().build());
+
+        wrapper.setTransformResponse(resourceHandlerRequest);
+
+        try (final InputStream in = loadRequestStream("create.request.json");
+             final OutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream()) {
+            final Context context = getLambdaContext();
+
+            wrapper.handleRequest(in, out, context);
+
+            // verify initialiseRuntime was called and initialised dependencies
+            verifyInitialiseRuntime();
+
+            // all metrics should be published, once for a single invocation
+            verify(providerMetricsPublisher, times(1)).publishInvocationMetric(any(Instant.class), eq(Action.CREATE));
+            verify(providerMetricsPublisher, times(1)).publishDurationMetric(any(Instant.class), eq(Action.CREATE), anyLong());
+
+            // failure metric should be published
+            verify(providerMetricsPublisher, times(1)).publishExceptionMetric(any(Instant.class), any(),
+                any(CloudWatchLogsException.class), any(HandlerErrorCode.class));
+
+            // verify that model validation occurred for CREATE/UPDATE/DELETE
+            verify(validator, times(1)).validateObject(any(JSONObject.class), any(JSONObject.class));
+
+            // verify output response
+            verifyHandlerResponse(out,
+                ProgressEvent.<TestModel, TestContext>builder().errorCode(HandlerErrorCode.GeneralServiceException)
+                    .status(OperationStatus.FAILED)
+                    .message("some error (Service: null; Status Code: 0; Error Code: null; Request ID: null)").build());
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void invokeHandler_throwsResourceAlreadyExistsException_returnsAlreadyExists() throws IOException {
         // exceptions are caught consistently by LambdaWrapper