diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index f31bf02f..53a0aa65 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -65,4 +65,4 @@ app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  - For apps that may not see traffic for several minutes at a time, you could see [cold starts](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/container-reuse-in-lambda/)
  - Cannot use native libraries (aka [Addons](https://nodejs.org/api/addons.html)) unless you package your app on an EC2 machine running Amazon Linux
  - Stateless only
- - API Gateway has a timeout of 30 seconds, and Lambda has a maximum execution time of 5 minutes.
+ - API Gateway has a timeout of 30 seconds, and Lambda has a maximum execution time of 15 minutes.
diff --git a/examples/basic-starter/simple-proxy-api.yaml b/examples/basic-starter/simple-proxy-api.yaml
index 0714e36f..bc7fe910 100644
--- a/examples/basic-starter/simple-proxy-api.yaml
+++ b/examples/basic-starter/simple-proxy-api.yaml
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ paths:
             Access-Control-Allow-Headers:
               type: string
       x-amazon-apigateway-integration:
+        contentHandling: CONVERT_TO_TEXT
         responses:
           default:
             statusCode: 200