diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/Cargo.toml b/opentelemetry-sdk/Cargo.toml
index bf03c8d34a..39b5fddfa2 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/Cargo.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ async-trait = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 futures-channel = "0.3"
 futures-executor = { workspace = true }
 futures-util = { workspace = true, features = ["std", "sink", "async-await-macro"] }
-once_cell = { workspace = true }
 percent-encoding = { version = "2.0", optional = true }
 rand = { workspace = true, features = ["std", "std_rng","small_rng"], optional = true }
 glob = { version = "0.3.1", optional =true}
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/logs/log_emitter.rs b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/logs/log_emitter.rs
index 1ebe76de9a..83670c3efc 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/logs/log_emitter.rs
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/logs/log_emitter.rs
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ use std::{
     },
 };
 
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
 // a no nop logger provider used as placeholder when the provider is shutdown
-static NOOP_LOGGER_PROVIDER: Lazy<LoggerProvider> = Lazy::new(|| LoggerProvider {
+static NOOP_LOGGER_PROVIDER: LazyLock<LoggerProvider> = LazyLock::new(|| LoggerProvider {
     inner: Arc::new(LoggerProviderInner {
         processors: Vec::new(),
         resource: Resource::empty(),
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/metrics/internal/exponential_histogram.rs b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/metrics/internal/exponential_histogram.rs
index c0d4263946..43c36726af 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/metrics/internal/exponential_histogram.rs
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/metrics/internal/exponential_histogram.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 use std::{f64::consts::LOG2_E, mem::replace, ops::DerefMut, sync::Mutex, time::SystemTime};
 
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use opentelemetry::{otel_debug, KeyValue};
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
 use crate::metrics::{
     data::{self, Aggregation},
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ fn scale_change(max_size: i32, bin: i32, start_bin: i32, length: i32) -> u32 {
 }
 
 /// Constants used in calculating the logarithm index.
-static SCALE_FACTORS: Lazy<[f64; 21]> = Lazy::new(|| {
+static SCALE_FACTORS: LazyLock<[f64; 21]> = LazyLock::new(|| {
     [
         LOG2_E * 2f64.powi(0),
         LOG2_E * 2f64.powi(1),
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/metrics/internal/mod.rs b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/metrics/internal/mod.rs
index 4eaea7972c..fc64799b05 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/metrics/internal/mod.rs
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/metrics/internal/mod.rs
@@ -15,11 +15,11 @@ use std::sync::{Arc, RwLock};
 use aggregate::is_under_cardinality_limit;
 pub(crate) use aggregate::{AggregateBuilder, ComputeAggregation, Measure};
 pub(crate) use exponential_histogram::{EXPO_MAX_SCALE, EXPO_MIN_SCALE};
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use opentelemetry::{otel_warn, KeyValue};
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
-pub(crate) static STREAM_OVERFLOW_ATTRIBUTES: Lazy<Vec<KeyValue>> =
-    Lazy::new(|| vec![KeyValue::new("otel.metric.overflow", "true")]);
+pub(crate) static STREAM_OVERFLOW_ATTRIBUTES: LazyLock<Vec<KeyValue>> =
+    LazyLock::new(|| vec![KeyValue::new("otel.metric.overflow", "true")]);
 
 pub(crate) trait Aggregator {
     /// A static configuration that is needed in order to initialize aggregator.
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/propagation/baggage.rs b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/propagation/baggage.rs
index 35567b4b4b..a76547e6a9 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/propagation/baggage.rs
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/propagation/baggage.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use opentelemetry::{
     baggage::{BaggageExt, KeyValueMetadata},
     otel_warn,
@@ -7,10 +6,11 @@ use opentelemetry::{
 };
 use percent_encoding::{percent_decode_str, utf8_percent_encode, AsciiSet, CONTROLS};
 use std::iter;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
 static BAGGAGE_HEADER: &str = "baggage";
 const FRAGMENT: &AsciiSet = &CONTROLS.add(b' ').add(b'"').add(b';').add(b',').add(b'=');
-static BAGGAGE_FIELDS: Lazy<[String; 1]> = Lazy::new(|| [BAGGAGE_HEADER.to_owned()]);
+static BAGGAGE_FIELDS: LazyLock<[String; 1]> = LazyLock::new(|| [BAGGAGE_HEADER.to_owned()]);
 
 /// Propagates name-value pairs in [W3C Baggage] format.
 ///
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/propagation/trace_context.rs b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/propagation/trace_context.rs
index ced269c2d2..ad9039769e 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/propagation/trace_context.rs
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/propagation/trace_context.rs
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 //! # W3C Trace Context Propagator
 //!
 
-use once_cell::sync::Lazy;
 use opentelemetry::{
     propagation::{text_map_propagator::FieldIter, Extractor, Injector, TextMapPropagator},
     trace::{SpanContext, SpanId, TraceContextExt, TraceFlags, TraceId, TraceState},
     Context,
 };
 use std::str::FromStr;
+use std::sync::LazyLock;
 
 const SUPPORTED_VERSION: u8 = 0;
 const MAX_VERSION: u8 = 254;
 const TRACEPARENT_HEADER: &str = "traceparent";
 const TRACESTATE_HEADER: &str = "tracestate";
 
-static TRACE_CONTEXT_HEADER_FIELDS: Lazy<[String; 2]> =
-    Lazy::new(|| [TRACEPARENT_HEADER.to_owned(), TRACESTATE_HEADER.to_owned()]);
+static TRACE_CONTEXT_HEADER_FIELDS: LazyLock<[String; 2]> =
+    LazyLock::new(|| [TRACEPARENT_HEADER.to_owned(), TRACESTATE_HEADER.to_owned()]);
 
 /// Propagates `SpanContext`s in [W3C TraceContext] format under `traceparent` and `tracestate` header.
 ///
diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/trace/provider.rs b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/trace/provider.rs
index dcb8f55fd8..eb14c62c82 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/src/trace/provider.rs
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/src/trace/provider.rs
@@ -68,20 +68,20 @@ use crate::trace::{
 };
 use crate::Resource;
 use crate::{export::trace::SpanExporter, trace::SpanProcessor};
-use once_cell::sync::{Lazy, OnceCell};
 use opentelemetry::trace::TraceError;
 use opentelemetry::InstrumentationScope;
 use opentelemetry::{otel_debug, trace::TraceResult};
 use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
 use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::sync::{LazyLock, OnceLock};
 
 use super::IdGenerator;
 
-static PROVIDER_RESOURCE: OnceCell<Resource> = OnceCell::new();
+static PROVIDER_RESOURCE: OnceLock<Resource> = OnceLock::new();
 
 // a no nop tracer provider used as placeholder when the provider is shutdown
-static NOOP_TRACER_PROVIDER: Lazy<TracerProvider> = Lazy::new(|| TracerProvider {
+static NOOP_TRACER_PROVIDER: LazyLock<TracerProvider> = LazyLock::new(|| TracerProvider {
     inner: Arc::new(TracerProviderInner {
         processors: Vec::new(),
         config: Config {
@@ -392,16 +392,8 @@ impl Builder {
         // For the uncommon case where there are multiple tracer providers with different resource
         // configurations, users can optionally provide their own borrowed static resource.
         if matches!(config.resource, Cow::Owned(_)) {
-            config.resource = match PROVIDER_RESOURCE.try_insert(config.resource.into_owned()) {
-                Ok(static_resource) => Cow::Borrowed(static_resource),
-                Err((prev, new)) => {
-                    if prev == &new {
-                        Cow::Borrowed(prev)
-                    } else {
-                        Cow::Owned(new)
-                    }
-                }
-            }
+            let owned_resource = config.resource.clone().into_owned();
+            config.resource = Cow::Borrowed(PROVIDER_RESOURCE.get_or_init(|| owned_resource));
         }
 
         // Create a new vector to hold the modified processors