diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
index a65b64ce0..567e0cdd1 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client/pom.xml
@@ -94,6 +94,12 @@
       <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>
@@ -473,4 +479,4 @@
     </profile>
   </profiles>
 
-</project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</project>