diff --git a/s3/src/command.rs b/s3/src/command.rs
index ca0b2b10ea..0054de1054 100644
--- a/s3/src/command.rs
+++ b/s3/src/command.rs
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ pub enum Command<'a> {
     },
 }
 
-impl<'a> Command<'a> {
+impl Command<'_> {
     pub fn http_verb(&self) -> HttpMethod {
         match *self {
             Command::GetObject
@@ -224,11 +224,9 @@ impl<'a> Command<'a> {
                 }
             }
             Command::PutBucketLifecycle { configuration } => {
-                quick_xml::se::to_string(configuration)?.as_bytes().len()
-            }
-            Command::PutBucketCors { configuration, .. } => {
-                configuration.to_string().as_bytes().len()
+                quick_xml::se::to_string(configuration)?.len()
             }
+            Command::PutBucketCors { configuration, .. } => configuration.to_string().len(),
             Command::HeadObject => 0,
             Command::DeleteObject => 0,
             Command::DeleteObjectTagging => 0,
diff --git a/s3/src/request/async_std_backend.rs b/s3/src/request/async_std_backend.rs
index 1ac3e22005..7093503482 100644
--- a/s3/src/request/async_std_backend.rs
+++ b/s3/src/request/async_std_backend.rs
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ pub struct SurfRequest<'a> {
 }
 
 #[maybe_async]
-impl<'a> Request for SurfRequest<'a> {
+impl Request for SurfRequest<'_> {
     type Response = surf::Response;
     type HeaderMap = HeaderMap;
 
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ impl<'a> Request for SurfRequest<'a> {
     }
 }
 
-impl<'a> SurfRequest<'a> {
+impl SurfRequest<'_> {
     pub async fn new<'b>(
         bucket: &'b Bucket,
         path: &'b str,
diff --git a/s3/src/request/blocking.rs b/s3/src/request/blocking.rs
index 5b2bba0cfc..a88137b080 100644
--- a/s3/src/request/blocking.rs
+++ b/s3/src/request/blocking.rs
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ pub struct AttoRequest<'a> {
     pub sync: bool,
 }
 
-impl<'a> Request for AttoRequest<'a> {
+impl Request for AttoRequest<'_> {
     type Response = attohttpc::Response;
     type HeaderMap = attohttpc::header::HeaderMap;
 
@@ -48,10 +48,7 @@ impl<'a> Request for AttoRequest<'a> {
 
     fn response(&self) -> Result<Self::Response, S3Error> {
         // Build headers
-        let headers = match self.headers() {
-            Ok(headers) => headers,
-            Err(e) => return Err(e),
-        };
+        let headers = self.headers()?;
 
         let mut session = attohttpc::Session::new();
 
@@ -128,7 +125,7 @@ impl<'a> Request for AttoRequest<'a> {
     }
 }
 
-impl<'a> AttoRequest<'a> {
+impl AttoRequest<'_> {
     pub fn new<'b>(
         bucket: &'b Bucket,
         path: &'b str,
diff --git a/s3/src/request/tokio_backend.rs b/s3/src/request/tokio_backend.rs
index ffe5813a1f..a66ff11380 100644
--- a/s3/src/request/tokio_backend.rs
+++ b/s3/src/request/tokio_backend.rs
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ pub struct ReqwestRequest<'a> {
 }
 
 #[maybe_async]
-impl<'a> Request for ReqwestRequest<'a> {
+impl Request for ReqwestRequest<'_> {
     type Response = reqwest::Response;
     type HeaderMap = reqwest::header::HeaderMap;
 
diff --git a/s3/src/serde_types.rs b/s3/src/serde_types.rs
index 8936009ca6..1fe25e7d53 100644
--- a/s3/src/serde_types.rs
+++ b/s3/src/serde_types.rs
@@ -166,11 +166,11 @@ impl fmt::Display for CompleteMultipartUploadData {
 
 impl CompleteMultipartUploadData {
     pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
-        self.to_string().as_bytes().len()
+        self.to_string().len()
     }
 
     pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
-        self.to_string().as_bytes().len() == 0
+        self.to_string().len() == 0
     }
 }
 
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ pub struct ListBucketResult {
     ///  Specifies whether (true) or not (false) all of the results were returned.
     ///  If the number of results exceeds that specified by MaxKeys, all of the results
     ///  might not be returned.
-
+    ///
     /// When the response is truncated (that is, the IsTruncated element value in the response
     /// is true), you can use the key name in in 'next_continuation_token' as a marker in the
     /// subsequent request to get next set of objects. Amazon S3 lists objects in UTF-8 character