diff --git a/extensions/amazon-lambda/common-deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/amazon/lambda/deployment/FunctionZipProcessor.java b/extensions/amazon-lambda/common-deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/amazon/lambda/deployment/FunctionZipProcessor.java
index bcc32c6967a36..74d972cb7a8a8 100644
--- a/extensions/amazon-lambda/common-deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/amazon/lambda/deployment/FunctionZipProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/amazon-lambda/common-deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/amazon/lambda/deployment/FunctionZipProcessor.java
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
 import org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip.ZipArchiveEntry;
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@
 import io.quarkus.deployment.pkg.builditem.LegacyJarRequiredBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.pkg.builditem.NativeImageBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.pkg.builditem.OutputTargetBuildItem;
+import io.quarkus.deployment.pkg.builditem.UpxCompressedBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.pkg.steps.NativeBuild;
 
 /**
@@ -103,6 +105,7 @@ public void jvmZip(OutputTargetBuildItem target,
      */
     @BuildStep(onlyIf = { IsNormal.class, NativeBuild.class })
     public void nativeZip(OutputTargetBuildItem target,
+            Optional<UpxCompressedBuildItem> upxCompressed, // used to ensure that we work with the compressed native binary if compression was enabled
             BuildProducer<ArtifactResultBuildItem> artifactResultProducer,
             NativeImageBuildItem nativeImage) throws Exception {
         Path zipDir = findNativeZipDir(target.getOutputDirectory());