diff --git a/src/trace/listener.ts b/src/trace/listener.ts
index a6c60590..c03fb50c 100644
--- a/src/trace/listener.ts
+++ b/src/trace/listener.ts
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ export class TraceListener {
   private wrappedCurrentSpan?: SpanWrapper;
   private triggerTags?: { [key: string]: string };
   private lambdaSpanParentContext?: SpanContext;
-  private spanPointerAttributesList: SpanPointerAttributes[] = [];
+  private spanPointerAttributesList: SpanPointerAttributes[] | undefined;
 
   public get currentTraceHeaders() {
     return this.contextService.currentTraceHeaders;
@@ -137,10 +137,7 @@ export class TraceListener {
     this.triggerTags = extractTriggerTags(event, context, eventSource);
     this.stepFunctionContext = StepFunctionContextService.instance().context;
 
-    const result = getSpanPointerAttributes(eventSource, event);
-    if (result) {
-      this.spanPointerAttributesList = result;
-    }
+    this.spanPointerAttributesList = getSpanPointerAttributes(eventSource, event);
   }
 
   /**
@@ -204,13 +201,9 @@ export class TraceListener {
       }
     }
 
-    if (this.wrappedCurrentSpan) {
+    if (this.wrappedCurrentSpan && this.spanPointerAttributesList) {
       for (const attributes of this.spanPointerAttributesList) {
-        this.wrappedCurrentSpan.span.addSpanPointer(
-          attributes.pointerKind,
-          attributes.pointerDirection,
-          attributes.pointerHash,
-        );
+        this.wrappedCurrentSpan.span.addSpanPointer(attributes.kind, attributes.direction, attributes.hash);
       }
     }
     return false;
diff --git a/src/utils/span-pointers.spec.ts b/src/utils/span-pointers.spec.ts
index 491182ae..3b6974bc 100644
--- a/src/utils/span-pointers.spec.ts
+++ b/src/utils/span-pointers.spec.ts
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ describe("span-pointers utils", () => {
 
         const expected: SpanPointerAttributes[] = [
           {
-            pointerKind: S3_PTR_KIND,
-            pointerDirection: SPAN_POINTER_DIRECTION.UPSTREAM,
-            pointerHash: mockPointerHash,
+            kind: S3_PTR_KIND,
+            direction: SPAN_POINTER_DIRECTION.UPSTREAM,
+            hash: mockPointerHash,
           },
         ];
 
@@ -91,14 +91,14 @@ describe("span-pointers utils", () => {
 
         const expected: SpanPointerAttributes[] = [
           {
-            pointerKind: S3_PTR_KIND,
-            pointerDirection: SPAN_POINTER_DIRECTION.UPSTREAM,
-            pointerHash: mockPointerHash,
+            kind: S3_PTR_KIND,
+            direction: SPAN_POINTER_DIRECTION.UPSTREAM,
+            hash: mockPointerHash,
           },
           {
-            pointerKind: S3_PTR_KIND,
-            pointerDirection: SPAN_POINTER_DIRECTION.UPSTREAM,
-            pointerHash: mockPointerHash,
+            kind: S3_PTR_KIND,
+            direction: SPAN_POINTER_DIRECTION.UPSTREAM,
+            hash: mockPointerHash,
           },
         ];
 
@@ -139,9 +139,9 @@ describe("span-pointers utils", () => {
 
         const expected: SpanPointerAttributes[] = [
           {
-            pointerKind: S3_PTR_KIND,
-            pointerDirection: SPAN_POINTER_DIRECTION.UPSTREAM,
-            pointerHash: mockPointerHash,
+            kind: S3_PTR_KIND,
+            direction: SPAN_POINTER_DIRECTION.UPSTREAM,
+            hash: mockPointerHash,
           },
         ];
 
diff --git a/src/utils/span-pointers.ts b/src/utils/span-pointers.ts
index 94dba9be..daac15cb 100644
--- a/src/utils/span-pointers.ts
+++ b/src/utils/span-pointers.ts
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ import { eventTypes } from "../trace/trigger";
 import { logDebug } from "./log";
 
 export interface SpanPointerAttributes {
-  pointerKind: string;
-  pointerDirection: string;
-  pointerHash: string;
+  kind: string;
+  direction: string;
+  hash: string;
 }
 
 /**
@@ -72,9 +72,9 @@ function processS3Event(event: any): SpanPointerAttributes[] {
     }
     const pointerHash = generatePointerHash([bucketName, objectKey, eTag]);
     const spanPointerAttributes: SpanPointerAttributes = {
-      pointerKind: S3_PTR_KIND,
-      pointerDirection: SPAN_POINTER_DIRECTION.UPSTREAM,
-      pointerHash,
+      kind: S3_PTR_KIND,
+      direction: SPAN_POINTER_DIRECTION.UPSTREAM,
+      hash: pointerHash,
     };
     spanPointerAttributesList.push(spanPointerAttributes);
   }