Yes, just we need to restore some code to use plain java11 instead of custom zipped layer :)

haa, maybe I missed that code, have been happily using ring<->hl-middleware with plain jvm11 runtime, with glue like this

(gen-class
  :name "..."
  :implements [com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestStreamHandler])

(def handler
  (hlra/ring<->hl-middleware (-> core/handler
                                 (mw/some-mw)
                                 ...
                                 (mw/another-mw))))

#_{:clj-kondo/ignore [:clojure-lsp/unused-public-var]}
(defn -handleRequest [_this in out ctx]
  (let [event (json/read-value in json/keyword-keys-object-mapper)
        response (handler {:event event
                           :ctx ctx})]
    (json/write-value out response)))