diff --git a/test/sdk-benchmarks/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/benchmark/marshaller/dynamodb/V2DynamoDbAttributeValue.java b/test/sdk-benchmarks/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/benchmark/marshaller/dynamodb/V2DynamoDbAttributeValue.java
index 93eaad9e4e71..0b770c8d1d08 100755
--- a/test/sdk-benchmarks/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/benchmark/marshaller/dynamodb/V2DynamoDbAttributeValue.java
+++ b/test/sdk-benchmarks/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/benchmark/marshaller/dynamodb/V2DynamoDbAttributeValue.java
@@ -20,12 +20,20 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.UncheckedIOException;
+import java.net.URI;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Benchmark;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.BenchmarkMode;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Fork;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Mode;
+import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.OutputTimeUnit;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Param;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Scope;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.Setup;
 import org.openjdk.jmh.annotations.State;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.core.client.config.SdkClientConfiguration;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.core.client.config.SdkClientOption;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.core.http.HttpResponseHandler;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.core.interceptor.ExecutionAttributes;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.http.AbortableInputStream;
@@ -61,11 +69,17 @@
 import software.amazon.awssdk.services.dynamodb.model.TableNotFoundException;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.services.dynamodb.transform.PutItemRequestMarshaller;
 
-
+@BenchmarkMode(Mode.AverageTime)
+@OutputTimeUnit(TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS)
+@Fork(1)
 public class V2DynamoDbAttributeValue {
 
     private static final AwsJsonProtocolFactory JSON_PROTOCOL_FACTORY = AwsJsonProtocolFactory
         .builder()
+        .clientConfiguration(SdkClientConfiguration
+                                 .builder()
+                                 .option(SdkClientOption.ENDPOINT, URI.create("https://localhost"))
+                                 .build())
         .defaultServiceExceptionSupplier(DynamoDbException::builder)
         .protocol(AwsJsonProtocol.AWS_JSON)
         .protocolVersion("1.0")