diff --git a/src/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AWSLambda/Implementation/AWSLambdaHttpUtils.cs b/src/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AWSLambda/Implementation/AWSLambdaHttpUtils.cs
index 60541fd64d..25adefc903 100644
--- a/src/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AWSLambda/Implementation/AWSLambdaHttpUtils.cs
+++ b/src/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AWSLambda/Implementation/AWSLambdaHttpUtils.cs
@@ -44,32 +44,14 @@ internal static IEnumerable<KeyValuePair<string, object>> GetHttpTags<TInput>(TI
             {
                 case APIGatewayProxyRequest request:
                     httpScheme = AWSLambdaUtils.GetHeaderValues(request, HeaderXForwardedProto)?.LastOrDefault();
-                    var queryString = GetQueryString(request);
-                    if (request.RequestContext?.Path != null)
-                    {
-                        httpTarget = string.Concat(request.RequestContext.Path, queryString);
-                    }
-                    else if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(queryString))
-                    {
-                        httpTarget = queryString;
-                    }
-
+                    httpTarget = string.Concat(request.RequestContext?.Path ?? string.Empty, GetQueryString(request));
                     httpMethod = request.HttpMethod;
                     var hostHeader = AWSLambdaUtils.GetHeaderValues(request, HeaderHost)?.LastOrDefault();
                     (hostName, hostPort) = GetHostAndPort(httpScheme, hostHeader);
                     break;
                 case APIGatewayHttpApiV2ProxyRequest requestV2:
                     httpScheme = AWSLambdaUtils.GetHeaderValues(requestV2, HeaderXForwardedProto)?.LastOrDefault();
-                    var queryStringV2 = GetQueryString(requestV2);
-                    if (requestV2.RawPath != null)
-                    {
-                        httpTarget = string.Concat(requestV2.RawPath, queryStringV2);
-                    }
-                    else if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(queryStringV2))
-                    {
-                        httpTarget = queryStringV2;
-                    }
-
+                    httpTarget = string.Concat(requestV2.RawPath ?? string.Empty, GetQueryString(requestV2));
                     httpMethod = requestV2.RequestContext?.Http?.Method;
                     var hostHeaderV2 = AWSLambdaUtils.GetHeaderValues(requestV2, HeaderHost)?.LastOrDefault();
                     (hostName, hostPort) = GetHostAndPort(httpScheme, hostHeaderV2);
diff --git a/test/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AWSLambda.Tests/Implementation/AWSLambdaHttpUtilsTests.cs b/test/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AWSLambda.Tests/Implementation/AWSLambdaHttpUtilsTests.cs
index 46edfbefd1..a5ecf93424 100644
--- a/test/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AWSLambda.Tests/Implementation/AWSLambdaHttpUtilsTests.cs
+++ b/test/OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AWSLambda.Tests/Implementation/AWSLambdaHttpUtilsTests.cs
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ public void GetHttpTags_APIGatewayProxyRequestWithMultiValueHeader_UsesLastValue
 
             var expectedTags = new Dictionary<string, object>
             {
+                { "http.target", string.Empty },
                 { "http.scheme", "http" },
                 { "net.host.name", "myhost" },
                 { "net.host.port", 432 },
@@ -137,6 +138,7 @@ public void GetHttpTags_APIGatewayHttpApiV2ProxyRequestWithMultiValueHeader_Uses
 
             var expectedTags = new Dictionary<string, object>
             {
+                { "http.target", string.Empty },
                 { "http.scheme", "http" },
                 { "net.host.name", "myhost" },
                 { "net.host.port", 432 },