diff --git a/bom-internal/pom.xml b/bom-internal/pom.xml
index 4cec8a4f4b5c..bd0487a7fff5 100644
--- a/bom-internal/pom.xml
+++ b/bom-internal/pom.xml
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
                 <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-                <version>8.42</version>
+                <version>10.16.0</version>
             </dependency>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
diff --git a/build-tools/pom.xml b/build-tools/pom.xml
index 950c1555ceb9..f83bf4684027 100644
--- a/build-tools/pom.xml
+++ b/build-tools/pom.xml
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.puppycrawl.tools</groupId>
             <artifactId>checkstyle</artifactId>
-            <version>8.42</version>
+            <version>10.16.0</version>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 64909aeb6aeb..1d04f351375a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -150,13 +150,13 @@
         <maven.build.timestamp.format>yyyy</maven.build.timestamp.format>
         <maven-dependency-plugin.version>3.1.1</maven-dependency-plugin.version>
         <maven-gpg-plugin.version>1.6</maven-gpg-plugin.version>
-        <checkstyle.version>8.42</checkstyle.version>
+        <checkstyle.version>10.16.0</checkstyle.version>
         <jacoco-maven-plugin.version>0.8.12</jacoco-maven-plugin.version>
         <nexus-staging-maven-plugin.version>1.6.8</nexus-staging-maven-plugin.version>
         <exec-maven-plugin.version>1.6.0</exec-maven-plugin.version>
         <maven-deploy-plugin.version>2.8.2</maven-deploy-plugin.version>
         <build-helper-maven-plugin.version>3.3.0</build-helper-maven-plugin.version>
-        <japicmp-maven-plugin.version>0.15.6</japicmp-maven-plugin.version>
+        <japicmp-maven-plugin.version>0.21.2</japicmp-maven-plugin.version>
         <versions-maven-plugin.version>2.13.0</versions-maven-plugin.version>
         <maven-archetype-plugin.version>3.2.1</maven-archetype-plugin.version>
         <!-- Whenever we update maven-wrapper-plugin version, we need to run mvn wrapper:wrapper to update the Maven Wrapper files(mvnw, .maven and mvnw.cmd) -->
diff --git a/utils/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/utils/StringUtils.java b/utils/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/utils/StringUtils.java
index 032fab6b828e..9ef526bf8c4c 100644
--- a/utils/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/utils/StringUtils.java
+++ b/utils/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/utils/StringUtils.java
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ public static String replacePrefixIgnoreCase(String str, String prefix, String r
      * @param charsToMatch A list of characters to search the string for.
      * @return The character that was first matched in the string or null if none of the characters were found.
      */
-    public static Character findFirstOccurrence(String s, char ...charsToMatch) {
+    public static Character findFirstOccurrence(String s, char... charsToMatch) {
         int lowestIndex = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
 
         for (char toMatch : charsToMatch) {