Packaging not working with GameLift

I am trying to run a dedicated server using AWS GameLift. The client works fine when running through the UE4 editor, but as soon as I package the development editor, the client crashes on startup. This is the specific line that fails in the plugin code:

Aws::Client::ClientConfiguration ClientConfig;

Here is the full stack trace:

[2019.04.19-18.36.29:504][ 0]LogWindows: Error: === Critical error: ===
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:505][ 0]LogWindows: Error:
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:506][ 0]LogWindows: Error: Fatal error!
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:507][ 0]LogWindows: Error:
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:508][ 0]LogWindows: Error: Unhandled Exception: 0xc06d007e
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:509][ 0]LogWindows: Error:
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:510][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffe93699129 KERNELBASE.dll!UnknownFunction []
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:513][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff7d2bffa6a ProjectCoreServer.exe!__delayLoadHelper2() [d:\agent_work\1\s\src\vctools\delayimp\delayhlp.cpp:323]
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:514][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff7d2806513 ProjectCoreServer.exe!_tailMerge_aws_cpp_sdk_core_dll() []
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:516][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff7cebf33ff ProjectCoreServer.exe!UGameLiftClientObject::Internal_InitGameLiftClientSDK() [d:\github\projectcoreue4\mainfiles\plugins\gameliftclientsdk\source\gameliftclientsdk\private\gameliftclientobject.cpp:11]
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:517][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff7cebf2a17 ProjectCoreServer.exe!UGameLiftClientObject::CreateGameLiftObject() [d:\github\projectcoreue4\mainfiles\plugins\gameliftclientsdk\source\gameliftclientsdk\private\gameliftclientobject.cpp:42]
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:518][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff7cee900e4 ProjectCoreServer.exe!UCDGameInstance::UCDGameInstance() [d:\github\projectcoreue4\mainfiles\source\projectcore\network\cdgameinstance.cpp:32]
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:520][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff7cf4d90c2 ProjectCoreServer.exe!UClass::CreateDefaultObject() [d:\unrealengine-release\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\class.cpp:3019]
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:523][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff7cf74dfd2 ProjectCoreServer.exe!UObjectLoadAllCompiledInDefaultProperties() [d:\unrealengine-release\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\uobjectbase.cpp:793]
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:525][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff7cf732e04 ProjectCoreServer.exe!ProcessNewlyLoadedUObjects() [d:\unrealengine-release\engine\source\runtime\coreuobject\private\uobject\uobjectbase.cpp:867]
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:526][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff7ce80a765 ProjectCoreServer.exe!FEngineLoop::PreInit() [d:\unrealengine-release\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\launchengineloop.cpp:2176]
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:527][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff7ce8038d3 ProjectCoreServer.exe!GuardedMain() [d:\unrealengine-release\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\launch.cpp:135]
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:528][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff7ce803b5a ProjectCoreServer.exe!GuardedMainWrapper() [d:\unrealengine-release\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\windows\launchwindows.cpp:145]
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:530][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff7ce810271 ProjectCoreServer.exe!WinMain() [d:\unrealengine-release\engine\source\runtime\launch\private\windows\launchwindows.cpp:276]
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:531][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ff7d2bfc8de ProjectCoreServer.exe!__scrt_common_main_seh() [d:\agent_work\1\s\src\vctools\crt\vcstartup\src\startup\exe_common.inl:288]
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:534][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffe953b7974 KERNEL32.DLL!UnknownFunction []
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:535][ 0]LogWindows: Error: [Callstack] 0x00007ffe9755a271 ntdll.dll!UnknownFunction []
[2019.04.19-18.36.29:536][ 0]LogWindows: Error:

It seems that certain dll and lib files are missing. Make sure that all the necessary binary files are added for the third party libraries in the AWS SDK that you are using in your project.