diff --git a/codebuild/cd/deploy-snapshot.yml b/codebuild/cd/deploy-snapshot.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b7cc04458
--- /dev/null
+++ b/codebuild/cd/deploy-snapshot.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+version: 0.2
+#this buildspec assumes the ubuntu 14.04 openjdk-8 image
+# This job is responsible for artifacting the JAR which will have all of the other shared libs stuffed
+# into it once all platforms are built and artifacted
+phases:
+  install:
+    commands:
+      - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa
+      - sudo apt-get update -y
+      - sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk-headless maven -y -f
+      # need latest awscli for secretsmanager
+      - sudo pip3 install awscli --upgrade
+
+  pre_build:
+    commands:
+      - cd $CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2
+      - export PKG_VERSION=$(git describe --tags | cut -f2 -dv)
+      # install settings.xml to ~/.m2/settings.xml
+      - mkdir -p $HOME/.m2
+      - aws s3 cp s3://code-sharing-aws-crt/aws-crt-java.settings.xml $HOME/.m2/settings.xml
+      # import gpg key
+      - aws s3 cp s3://code-sharing-aws-crt/aws-sdk-common-runtime.key.asc /tmp/aws-sdk-common-runtime.key.asc
+      - gpg --import /tmp/aws-sdk-common-runtime.key.asc
+      - export GPG_PASSPHRASE=$(aws --query "SecretString" secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id aws-sdk-common-runtime.key.asc/password | cut -f2 -d":" | sed -e 's/[\\\"\}]//g')
+  build:
+    commands:
+      - cd $CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2/sdk
+      # update the version to match the git tag, make a snapshot version we can test
+      - mvn -B versions:set -DnewVersion=${PKG_VERSION}-SNAPSHOT
+      # do a full build/deploy, but skip tests, since the shared libs were artifacts above
+      - mvn -B deploy -Prelease -Dmaven.test.skip=true -Dgpg.passphrase=$GPG_PASSPHRASE
+      # update the version to match the git tag, make a staging release which we will release once snapshot testing passes
+      - mvn -B versions:set -DnewVersion=${PKG_VERSION}
+      - mvn -B deploy -Prelease -Dmaven.test.skip=true -Dgpg.passphrase=$GPG_PASSPHRASE | tee /tmp/deploy.log
+      - cat /tmp/deploy.log | grep "Created staging repository with ID" | cut -d\" -f2 | tee /tmp/repositoryId.txt
+
+artifacts:
+  discard-paths: yes
+  files:
+    - $CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2/target/aws-crt-*.jar
+    - $CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2/target/aws-crt-*.asc
+    - /tmp/repositoryId.txt
+
+cache:
+  paths:
+    - '/root/.m2/**/*'
diff --git a/codebuild/cd/promote-release.yml b/codebuild/cd/promote-release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..55eff6673
--- /dev/null
+++ b/codebuild/cd/promote-release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+version: 0.2
+#this buildspec assumes the ubuntu 16.04:x64 image
+# This job is responsible for artifacting the JAR which will have all of the other shared libs stuffed
+# into it once all platforms are built and artifacted
+phases:
+  install:
+    commands:
+      - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa
+      - sudo apt-get update -y
+      - sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk-headless maven -y -f
+      # need latest awscli for secretsmanager
+      - sudo pip3 install awscli --upgrade
+
+  pre_build:
+    commands:
+      - cd $CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2
+      - export PKG_VERSION=$(git describe --tags | cut -f2 -dv)
+      - echo PKG_VERSION=$PKG_VERSION
+      # install settings.xml to ~/.m2/settings.xml
+      - mkdir -p $HOME/.m2
+      - aws s3 cp s3://code-sharing-aws-crt/aws-crt-java.settings.xml $HOME/.m2/settings.xml
+      # import gpg key
+      - aws s3 cp s3://code-sharing-aws-crt/aws-sdk-common-runtime.key.asc /tmp/aws-sdk-common-runtime.key.asc
+      - gpg --import /tmp/aws-sdk-common-runtime.key.asc
+      - export GPG_PASSPHRASE=$(aws --query "SecretString" secretsmanager get-secret-value --secret-id aws-sdk-common-runtime.key.asc/password | cut -f2 -d":" | sed -e 's/[\\\"\}]//g')
+      - export REPOSITORY_ID=$(cat $CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR_aws_iot_device_sdk_java_v2_jar/repositoryId.txt)
+  build:
+    commands:
+      - cd $CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2/sdk
+      # Trigger the release of the last staged package in the staging repository
+      - mvn -B nexus-staging:release -Prelease -DstagingRepositoryId=$REPOSITORY_ID
+
+cache:
+  paths:
+    - '/root/.m2/**/*'
diff --git a/codebuild/cd/test-snapshot.yml b/codebuild/cd/test-snapshot.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..115175806
--- /dev/null
+++ b/codebuild/cd/test-snapshot.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+version: 0.2
+#this buildspec assumes the ubuntu 16.04:x64 image
+# This job is responsible for artifacting the JAR which will have all of the other shared libs stuffed
+# into it once all platforms are built and artifacted
+phases:
+  install:
+    commands:
+      - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openjdk-r/ppa
+      - sudo apt-get update -y
+      - sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk-headless maven -y -f
+
+  pre_build:
+    commands:
+      - cd $CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2
+      - export PKG_VERSION=$(git describe --tags | sed -e s/^v//)
+
+  build:
+    commands:
+      # Verify that the package can be found in the snapshot repo
+      # note that this uses an ancient version of maven and the maven dependency plugin because we're on trusty
+      # http://maven.apache.org/plugins-archives/maven-dependency-plugin-2.1/get-mojo.html
+      - mvn -B dependency:get -DrepoUrl=https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots -Dartifact=software.amazon.awssdk.iotdevicesdk:aws-iot-device-sdk:${PKG_VERSION}-SNAPSHOT -Dtransitive=false
+
+cache:
+  paths:
+    - '/root/.m2/**/*'
diff --git a/codebuild/cd/test-version-exists.sh b/codebuild/cd/test-version-exists.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3b681bc55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/codebuild/cd/test-version-exists.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -e
+set -x
+# force a failure if there's no tag
+git describe --tags
+# now get the tag
+CURRENT_TAG=$(git describe --tags | cut -f2 -dv)
+# convert v0.2.12-2-g50254a9 to 0.2.12
+CURRENT_TAG_VERSION=$(git describe --tags | cut -f1 -d'-' | cut -f2 -dv)
+# if there's a hash on the tag, then this is not a release tagged commit
+if [ "$CURRENT_TAG" != "$CURRENT_TAG_VERSION" ]; then
+    echo "Current tag version is not a release tag, cut a new release if you want to publish."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+PUBLISHED_TAG_VERSION=$(curl -s "https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/software/amazon/awssdk/iotdevicesdk/aws-iot-device-sdk/maven-metadata.xml" | grep "<latest>" | cut -f2 -d ">" | cut -f1 -d "<")
+if [ "$PUBLISHED_TAG_VERSION" == "$CURRENT_TAG_VERSION" ]; then
+    echo "$CURRENT_TAG_VERSION is already in Sonatype, cut a new tag if you want to upload another version."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "$CURRENT_TAG_VERSION currently does not exist in Sonatype, allowing pipeline to continue."
+exit 0
diff --git a/codebuild/cd/test-version-exists.yml b/codebuild/cd/test-version-exists.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..eaa0a938a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/codebuild/cd/test-version-exists.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+version: 0.2
+#this build spec assumes the ubuntu 16.04:x64 image
+#this build run simply verifies we haven't published something at this tag yet.
+#if we have we fail the build and stop the pipeline, if we haven't we allow the pipeline to run.
+phases:
+  build:
+    commands:
+      - cd $CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2
+      - bash ./codebuild/cd/test-version-exists.sh
+  
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 20262da57..ba50984b6 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-    <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk.iot</groupId>
-    <artifactId>AwsIotSdkJava</artifactId>
+    <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk.iotdevicesdk</groupId>
+    <artifactId>sdk</artifactId>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
 
diff --git a/samples/BasicPubSub/pom.xml b/samples/BasicPubSub/pom.xml
index 7412af14a..bd5bde383 100644
--- a/samples/BasicPubSub/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/BasicPubSub/pom.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-    <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk.iot</groupId>
+    <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk.iotdevicesdk</groupId>
     <artifactId>BasicPubSub</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
+    <name>${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}</name>
+    <description>Java bindings for the AWS IoT Core Service</description>
+    <url>https://github.com/awslabs/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2</url>
     <properties>
         <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
diff --git a/samples/Jobs/pom.xml b/samples/Jobs/pom.xml
index 633df375d..076f54050 100644
--- a/samples/Jobs/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/Jobs/pom.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-    <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk.iot</groupId>
+    <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk.iotdevicesdk</groupId>
     <artifactId>Jobs</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
+    <name>${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}</name>
+    <description>Java bindings for the AWS IoT Core Service</description>
+    <url>https://github.com/awslabs/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2</url>
     <properties>
         <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
diff --git a/samples/Shadow/pom.xml b/samples/Shadow/pom.xml
index 64d7fca02..291251813 100644
--- a/samples/Shadow/pom.xml
+++ b/samples/Shadow/pom.xml
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-    <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk.iot</groupId>
+    <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk.iotdevicesdk</groupId>
     <artifactId>Shadow</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
     <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
+    <name>${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}</name>
+    <description>Java bindings for the AWS IoT Core Service</description>
+    <url>https://github.com/awslabs/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2</url>
     <properties>
         <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
         <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
diff --git a/sdk/pom.xml b/sdk/pom.xml
index f940b2d12..0e46d329d 100644
--- a/sdk/pom.xml
+++ b/sdk/pom.xml
@@ -1,34 +1,134 @@
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
-<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-<groupId>software.amazon.awssdk.iot</groupId>
-<artifactId>aws-iot-device-sdk-java</artifactId>
-<packaging>jar</packaging>
-<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
-<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>
-<properties>
-  <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
-  <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
-  <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
-</properties>
-<dependencies>
-  <dependency>
-    <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk.crt</groupId>
-    <artifactId>aws-crt-java</artifactId>
-    <version>1.0</version>
-    <scope>compile</scope>
-  </dependency>
-  <dependency>
-    <groupId>junit</groupId>
-    <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
-    <version>4.12</version>
-    <scope>test</scope>
-  </dependency>
-  <dependency>
-    <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
-    <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
-    <version>2.8.5</version>
-    <scope>compile</scope>
-  </dependency>
-</dependencies>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk.iotdevicesdk</groupId>
+  <artifactId>aws-iot-device-sdk</artifactId>
+  <packaging>jar</packaging>
+  <version>0.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  <name>${project.groupId}:${project.artifactId}</name>
+  <description>Java bindings for the AWS IoT Core Service</description>
+  <url>https://github.com/awslabs/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2</url>
+
+  <licenses>
+    <license>
+      <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
+      <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+    </license>
+  </licenses>
+
+  <developers>
+    <developer>
+      <name>AWS SDK Common Runtime Team</name>
+      <email>aws-sdk-common-runtime@amazon.com</email>
+      <organization>Amazon Web Services</organization>
+      <organizationUrl>https://aws.amazon.com</organizationUrl>
+    </developer>
+  </developers>
+
+  <scm>
+    <connection>scm:git:git://github.com/awslabs/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2.git</connection>
+    <developerConnection>scm:git:ssh://github.com:awslabs/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2.git</developerConnection>
+    <url>http://github.com/awslabs/aws-iot-device-sdk-java-v2/tree/master</url>
+  </scm>
+
+  <properties>
+    <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
+    <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
+    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+  </properties>
+
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk.crt</groupId>
+      <artifactId>aws-crt</artifactId>
+      <version>0.3.8</version>
+      <scope>compile</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>junit</groupId>
+      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
+      <version>4.12</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.google.code.gson</groupId>
+      <artifactId>gson</artifactId>
+      <version>2.8.5</version>
+      <scope>compile</scope>
+    </dependency>
+  </dependencies>
+
+  <profiles>
+    <profile>
+      <id>release</id>
+      <distributionManagement>
+        <snapshotRepository>
+          <id>ossrh</id>
+          <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
+        </snapshotRepository>
+      </distributionManagement>
+      <build>
+        <plugins>
+          <!-- staging/release to Sonatype -->
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>1.6.8</version>
+            <extensions>true</extensions>
+            <configuration>
+              <serverId>ossrh</serverId>
+              <nexusUrl>https://oss.sonatype.org/</nexusUrl>
+              <autoReleaseAfterClose>false</autoReleaseAfterClose>
+            </configuration>
+          </plugin>
+          <!-- source jar -->
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>2.2.1</version>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>attach-sources</id>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
+                </goals>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+          <!-- javadoc jar -->
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>2.9.1</version>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>attach-javadocs</id>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>jar</goal>
+                </goals>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+          <!-- GPG signing -->
+          <plugin>
+            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+            <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+            <version>1.5</version>
+            <executions>
+              <execution>
+                <id>sign-artifacts</id>
+                <phase>verify</phase>
+                <goals>
+                  <goal>sign</goal>
+                </goals>
+                <configuration>
+                  <keyname>${gpg.keyname}</keyname>
+                </configuration>
+              </execution>
+            </executions>
+          </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+      </build>
+    </profile>
+  </profiles>
 </project>