diff --git a/.changes/next-release/bugfix-AWSSDKforJavav2-1e17bfe.json b/.changes/next-release/bugfix-AWSSDKforJavav2-1e17bfe.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d449b9a7530b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/next-release/bugfix-AWSSDKforJavav2-1e17bfe.json
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+    "type": "bugfix",
+    "category": "AWS SDK for Java v2",
+    "contributor": "",
+    "description": "Fix shading of artifacts in the `bundle` by not `org.apache.log4j.*` packages. This allows proper binding of `commons-logging` to Log4J and enables dependencies that use commons logging (e.g. Apache HTTP Client) to properly bind to Log4j."
+}
diff --git a/bundle-sdk/pom.xml b/bundle-sdk/pom.xml
index 8e3150a00169..5158072579aa 100644
--- a/bundle-sdk/pom.xml
+++ b/bundle-sdk/pom.xml
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@
                             <relocation>
                                 <pattern>org.apache</pattern>
                                 <shadedPattern>software.amazon.awssdk.thirdparty.org.apache</shadedPattern>
+                                <excludes>
+                                    <exclude>org.apache.log4j.*</exclude>
+                                </excludes>
                             </relocation>
                             <relocation>
                                 <pattern>io.netty</pattern>