diff --git a/lambdas/core-notifier-lambda/src/apis/sqs-handler.ts b/lambdas/core-notifier-lambda/src/apis/sqs-handler.ts
index 82ab8fc4c..eb217bab0 100644
--- a/lambdas/core-notifier-lambda/src/apis/sqs-handler.ts
+++ b/lambdas/core-notifier-lambda/src/apis/sqs-handler.ts
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ type EventToPublish = {
   rejected?: MessageRequestRejected;
 };
 
+type ProcessRecordResult = {
+  submitted?: MessageRequestSubmitted;
+  skipped?: MessageRequestSkipped;
+  rejected?: MessageRequestRejected;
+  batchItemFailure?: SQSBatchItemFailure;
+};
+
 async function handlePdmResourceAvailable(
   notifyMessageProcessor: NotifyMessageProcessor,
   incoming: PDMResourceAvailable,
@@ -69,6 +76,65 @@ async function handlePdmResourceAvailable(
   return eventToPublish;
 }
 
+async function processSqsRecord(
+  sqsRecord: SQSRecord,
+  logger: Logger,
+  senderManagement: ISenderManagement,
+  notifyMessageProcessor: NotifyMessageProcessor,
+): Promise<ProcessRecordResult> {
+  const result: ProcessRecordResult = {};
+
+  let incoming: PDMResourceAvailable | undefined;
+  let sender: Sender | null = null;
+
+  try {
+    incoming = parseSqsRecord(sqsRecord, logger);
+    sender = await senderManagement.getSender({
+      senderId: incoming.data.senderId,
+    });
+
+    if (sender === null) {
+      throw new Error(
+        `Sender not found for senderId: ${incoming.data.senderId}`,
+      );
+    }
+
+    const eventToPublish = await handlePdmResourceAvailable(
+      notifyMessageProcessor,
+      incoming,
+      sender,
+    );
+
+    if (eventToPublish.submitted) {
+      result.submitted = eventToPublish.submitted;
+    }
+    if (eventToPublish.skipped) {
+      result.skipped = eventToPublish.skipped;
+    }
+  } catch (error: any) {
+    logger.warn({
+      error: error.message,
+      description: 'Failed processing message',
+      messageId: sqsRecord.messageId,
+      senderId: incoming?.data.senderId,
+    });
+
+    if (error instanceof RequestNotifyError && incoming && sender) {
+      // CCM-12858 A/C 5: When any other response other than a 201 is returned, don't retry the message
+      result.rejected = mapPdmEventToMessageRequestRejected(
+        incoming,
+        sender,
+        error.errorCode,
+      );
+    } else {
+      // this might be a transient error so we notify the queue to retry
+      result.batchItemFailure = { itemIdentifier: sqsRecord.messageId };
+    }
+  }
+
+  return result;
+}
+
 export const createHandler = ({
   eventPublisher,
   logger,
@@ -87,58 +153,33 @@ export const createHandler = ({
     const submittedEvents: MessageRequestSubmitted[] = [];
     const rejectedEvents: MessageRequestRejected[] = [];
 
-    let incoming: PDMResourceAvailable;
-    let sender: Sender | null;
-
-    await Promise.all(
-      sqsEvent.Records.map(async (sqsRecord: SQSRecord) => {
-        try {
-          incoming = parseSqsRecord(sqsRecord, logger);
-          sender = await senderManagement.getSender({
-            senderId: incoming.data.senderId,
-          });
-          if (sender === null) {
-            throw new Error(
-              `Sender not found for senderId: ${incoming.data.senderId}`,
-            );
-          }
-
-          const eventToPublish = await handlePdmResourceAvailable(
-            notifyMessageProcessor,
-            incoming,
-            sender,
-          );
-
-          if (eventToPublish.submitted) {
-            submittedEvents.push(eventToPublish.submitted);
-          }
-          if (eventToPublish.skipped) {
-            skippedEvents.push(eventToPublish.skipped);
-          }
-        } catch (error: any) {
-          logger.warn({
-            error: error.message,
-            description: 'Failed processing message',
-            messageId: sqsRecord.messageId,
-            senderId: incoming?.data.senderId,
-          });
-          if (error instanceof RequestNotifyError) {
-            // CCM-12858 A/C 5: When any other response other than a 201 is returned, don't retry the message
-            rejectedEvents.push(
-              mapPdmEventToMessageRequestRejected(
-                incoming,
-                sender!,
-                error.errorCode,
-              ),
-            );
-          } else {
-            // this might be a transient error so we notify the queue to retry
-            batchItemFailures.push({ itemIdentifier: sqsRecord.messageId });
-          }
-        }
-      }),
+    const results = await Promise.all(
+      sqsEvent.Records.map((sqsRecord) =>
+        processSqsRecord(
+          sqsRecord,
+          logger,
+          senderManagement,
+          notifyMessageProcessor,
+        ),
+      ),
     );
 
+    // Aggregate results from all processed records
+    for (const result of results) {
+      if (result.submitted) {
+        submittedEvents.push(result.submitted);
+      }
+      if (result.skipped) {
+        skippedEvents.push(result.skipped);
+      }
+      if (result.rejected) {
+        rejectedEvents.push(result.rejected);
+      }
+      if (result.batchItemFailure) {
+        batchItemFailures.push(result.batchItemFailure);
+      }
+    }
+
     await Promise.all(
       [
         submittedEvents.length > 0 &&
diff --git a/scripts/docker/examples/python/assets/hello_world/requirements.txt b/scripts/docker/examples/python/assets/hello_world/requirements.txt
index 1921a4285..fd7fb3118 100644
--- a/scripts/docker/examples/python/assets/hello_world/requirements.txt
+++ b/scripts/docker/examples/python/assets/hello_world/requirements.txt
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ MarkupSafe==2.1.3
 pip==25.3
 setuptools==78.1.1
 Werkzeug==3.1.4
-wheel==0.41.1
+wheel==0.46.2
 WTForms==3.0.1