diff --git a/external/kinesis-asl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisBackedBlockRDD.scala b/external/kinesis-asl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisBackedBlockRDD.scala
index 45dc3c388cb8..32add5f49ab9 100644
--- a/external/kinesis-asl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisBackedBlockRDD.scala
+++ b/external/kinesis-asl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisBackedBlockRDD.scala
@@ -36,7 +36,11 @@ import org.apache.spark.util.NextIterator
 /** Class representing a range of Kinesis sequence numbers. Both sequence numbers are inclusive. */
 private[kinesis]
 case class SequenceNumberRange(
-    streamName: String, shardId: String, fromSeqNumber: String, toSeqNumber: String)
+    streamName: String,
+    shardId: String,
+    fromSeqNumber: String,
+    toSeqNumber: String,
+    recordCount: Int)
 
 /** Class representing an array of Kinesis sequence number ranges */
 private[kinesis]
@@ -138,6 +142,8 @@ class KinesisSequenceRangeIterator(
   private val client = new AmazonKinesisClient(credentials)
   private val streamName = range.streamName
   private val shardId = range.shardId
+  // AWS limits to maximum of 10k records per get call
+  private val maxGetRecordsLimit = 10000
 
   private var toSeqNumberReceived = false
   private var lastSeqNumber: String = null
@@ -155,12 +161,14 @@ class KinesisSequenceRangeIterator(
 
         // If the internal iterator has not been initialized,
         // then fetch records from starting sequence number
-        internalIterator = getRecords(ShardIteratorType.AT_SEQUENCE_NUMBER, range.fromSeqNumber)
+        internalIterator = getRecords(ShardIteratorType.AT_SEQUENCE_NUMBER, range.fromSeqNumber,
+          range.recordCount)
       } else if (!internalIterator.hasNext) {
 
         // If the internal iterator does not have any more records,
         // then fetch more records after the last consumed sequence number
-        internalIterator = getRecords(ShardIteratorType.AFTER_SEQUENCE_NUMBER, lastSeqNumber)
+        internalIterator = getRecords(ShardIteratorType.AFTER_SEQUENCE_NUMBER, lastSeqNumber,
+          range.recordCount)
       }
 
       if (!internalIterator.hasNext) {
@@ -193,9 +201,12 @@ class KinesisSequenceRangeIterator(
   /**
    * Get records starting from or after the given sequence number.
    */
-  private def getRecords(iteratorType: ShardIteratorType, seqNum: String): Iterator[Record] = {
+  private def getRecords(
+      iteratorType: ShardIteratorType,
+      seqNum: String,
+      recordCount: Int): Iterator[Record] = {
     val shardIterator = getKinesisIterator(iteratorType, seqNum)
-    val result = getRecordsAndNextKinesisIterator(shardIterator)
+    val result = getRecordsAndNextKinesisIterator(shardIterator, recordCount)
     result._1
   }
 
@@ -204,10 +215,12 @@ class KinesisSequenceRangeIterator(
    * to get records from Kinesis), and get the next shard iterator for next consumption.
    */
   private def getRecordsAndNextKinesisIterator(
-      shardIterator: String): (Iterator[Record], String) = {
+      shardIterator: String,
+      recordCount: Int): (Iterator[Record], String) = {
     val getRecordsRequest = new GetRecordsRequest
     getRecordsRequest.setRequestCredentials(credentials)
     getRecordsRequest.setShardIterator(shardIterator)
+    getRecordsRequest.setLimit(Math.min(recordCount, this.maxGetRecordsLimit))
     val getRecordsResult = retryOrTimeout[GetRecordsResult](
       s"getting records using shard iterator") {
         client.getRecords(getRecordsRequest)
diff --git a/external/kinesis-asl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisReceiver.scala b/external/kinesis-asl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisReceiver.scala
index 393e56a39320..e36cde5aa3d8 100644
--- a/external/kinesis-asl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisReceiver.scala
+++ b/external/kinesis-asl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisReceiver.scala
@@ -216,7 +216,8 @@ private[kinesis] class KinesisReceiver[T](
     if (records.size > 0) {
       val dataIterator = records.iterator().asScala.map(messageHandler)
       val metadata = SequenceNumberRange(streamName, shardId,
-        records.get(0).getSequenceNumber(), records.get(records.size() - 1).getSequenceNumber())
+        records.get(0).getSequenceNumber(), records.get(records.size() - 1).getSequenceNumber(),
+        records.size())
       blockGenerator.addMultipleDataWithCallback(dataIterator, metadata)
     }
   }
diff --git a/external/kinesis-asl/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisBackedBlockRDDSuite.scala b/external/kinesis-asl/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisBackedBlockRDDSuite.scala
index 18a5a1509a33..2c7b9c58e6fa 100644
--- a/external/kinesis-asl/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisBackedBlockRDDSuite.scala
+++ b/external/kinesis-asl/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisBackedBlockRDDSuite.scala
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ abstract class KinesisBackedBlockRDDTests(aggregateTestData: Boolean)
       shardIdToSeqNumbers = shardIdToDataAndSeqNumbers.mapValues { _.map { _._2 }}
       shardIdToRange = shardIdToSeqNumbers.map { case (shardId, seqNumbers) =>
         val seqNumRange = SequenceNumberRange(
-          testUtils.streamName, shardId, seqNumbers.head, seqNumbers.last)
+          testUtils.streamName, shardId, seqNumbers.head, seqNumbers.last, seqNumbers.size)
         (shardId, seqNumRange)
       }
       allRanges = shardIdToRange.values.toSeq
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ abstract class KinesisBackedBlockRDDTests(aggregateTestData: Boolean)
 
     // Create the necessary ranges to use in the RDD
     val fakeRanges = Array.fill(numPartitions - numPartitionsInKinesis)(
-      SequenceNumberRanges(SequenceNumberRange("fakeStream", "fakeShardId", "xxx", "yyy")))
+      SequenceNumberRanges(SequenceNumberRange("fakeStream", "fakeShardId", "xxx", "yyy", 1)))
     val realRanges = Array.tabulate(numPartitionsInKinesis) { i =>
       val range = shardIdToRange(shardIds(i + (numPartitions - numPartitionsInKinesis)))
       SequenceNumberRanges(Array(range))
diff --git a/external/kinesis-asl/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisStreamSuite.scala b/external/kinesis-asl/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisStreamSuite.scala
index 404b673c0117..5a99776e510d 100644
--- a/external/kinesis-asl/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisStreamSuite.scala
+++ b/external/kinesis-asl/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisStreamSuite.scala
@@ -119,13 +119,13 @@ abstract class KinesisStreamTests(aggregateTestData: Boolean) extends KinesisFun
 
     // Generate block info data for testing
     val seqNumRanges1 = SequenceNumberRanges(
-      SequenceNumberRange("fakeStream", "fakeShardId", "xxx", "yyy"))
+      SequenceNumberRange("fakeStream", "fakeShardId", "xxx", "yyy", 67))
     val blockId1 = StreamBlockId(kinesisStream.id, 123)
     val blockInfo1 = ReceivedBlockInfo(
       0, None, Some(seqNumRanges1), new BlockManagerBasedStoreResult(blockId1, None))
 
     val seqNumRanges2 = SequenceNumberRanges(
-      SequenceNumberRange("fakeStream", "fakeShardId", "aaa", "bbb"))
+      SequenceNumberRange("fakeStream", "fakeShardId", "aaa", "bbb", 89))
     val blockId2 = StreamBlockId(kinesisStream.id, 345)
     val blockInfo2 = ReceivedBlockInfo(
       0, None, Some(seqNumRanges2), new BlockManagerBasedStoreResult(blockId2, None))