diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
index d3d75b107..3d5bdc4d9 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
@@ -82,6 +82,12 @@
       <groupId>software.amazon.glue</groupId>
       <artifactId>schema-registry-serde</artifactId>
       <version>${gsr.version}</version>
+      <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+              <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
+              <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-sts</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>software.amazon.glue</groupId>