diff --git a/lambda-http/Cargo.toml b/lambda-http/Cargo.toml
index fc93d88f..6e1a4989 100644
--- a/lambda-http/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lambda-http/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "lambda_http"
-version = "0.8.3"
+version = "0.8.4"
 authors = [
     "David Calavera <dcalaver@amazon.com>",
     "Harold Sun <sunhua@amazon.com>",
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ http-body = "0.4"
 hyper = "0.14"
 lambda_runtime = { path = "../lambda-runtime", version = "0.8.3" }
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = "1.0"
+serde_json = { version = "1.0", features = ["raw_value"] }
 serde_urlencoded = "0.7"
 tokio-stream = "0.1.2"
 mime = "0.3"
diff --git a/lambda-http/src/deserializer.rs b/lambda-http/src/deserializer.rs
index a77f68a5..cafc3d45 100644
--- a/lambda-http/src/deserializer.rs
+++ b/lambda-http/src/deserializer.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 use crate::request::LambdaRequest;
+#[cfg(feature = "alb")]
+use aws_lambda_events::alb::AlbTargetGroupRequest;
+#[cfg(feature = "apigw_rest")]
+use aws_lambda_events::apigw::ApiGatewayProxyRequest;
+#[cfg(feature = "apigw_http")]
+use aws_lambda_events::apigw::ApiGatewayV2httpRequest;
+#[cfg(feature = "apigw_websockets")]
+use aws_lambda_events::apigw::ApiGatewayWebsocketProxyRequest;
 use serde::{de::Error, Deserialize};
+use serde_json::value::RawValue;
 
 const ERROR_CONTEXT: &str = "this function expects a JSON payload from Amazon API Gateway, Amazon Elastic Load Balancer, or AWS Lambda Function URLs, but the data doesn't match any of those services' events";
 
@@ -8,34 +17,22 @@ impl<'de> Deserialize<'de> for LambdaRequest {
     where
         D: serde::Deserializer<'de>,
     {
-        let content = match serde::__private::de::Content::deserialize(deserializer) {
-            Ok(content) => content,
-            Err(err) => return Err(err),
-        };
+        let raw_value: Box<RawValue> = Box::deserialize(deserializer)?;
+        let data = raw_value.get();
         #[cfg(feature = "apigw_rest")]
-        if let Ok(res) = aws_lambda_events::apigw::ApiGatewayProxyRequest::deserialize(
-            serde::__private::de::ContentRefDeserializer::<D::Error>::new(&content),
-        ) {
+        if let Ok(res) = serde_json::from_str::<ApiGatewayProxyRequest>(data) {
             return Ok(LambdaRequest::ApiGatewayV1(res));
         }
         #[cfg(feature = "apigw_http")]
-        if let Ok(res) = aws_lambda_events::apigw::ApiGatewayV2httpRequest::deserialize(
-            serde::__private::de::ContentRefDeserializer::<D::Error>::new(&content),
-        ) {
+        if let Ok(res) = serde_json::from_str::<ApiGatewayV2httpRequest>(data) {
             return Ok(LambdaRequest::ApiGatewayV2(res));
         }
         #[cfg(feature = "alb")]
-        if let Ok(res) =
-            aws_lambda_events::alb::AlbTargetGroupRequest::deserialize(serde::__private::de::ContentRefDeserializer::<
-                D::Error,
-            >::new(&content))
-        {
+        if let Ok(res) = serde_json::from_str::<AlbTargetGroupRequest>(data) {
             return Ok(LambdaRequest::Alb(res));
         }
         #[cfg(feature = "apigw_websockets")]
-        if let Ok(res) = aws_lambda_events::apigw::ApiGatewayWebsocketProxyRequest::deserialize(
-            serde::__private::de::ContentRefDeserializer::<D::Error>::new(&content),
-        ) {
+        if let Ok(res) = serde_json::from_str::<ApiGatewayWebsocketProxyRequest>(data) {
             return Ok(LambdaRequest::WebSocket(res));
         }