diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 9be80a0df5716..834adc40c8b2c 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
     <avro.mapred.classifier>hadoop2</avro.mapred.classifier>
     <jets3t.version>0.7.1</jets3t.version>
     <aws.java.sdk.version>1.9.16</aws.java.sdk.version>
-    <aws.kinesis.client.version>1.2.1</aws.kinesis.client.version>
+    <aws.kinesis.client.version>1.3.0</aws.kinesis.client.version>
     <!--  org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient-->
     <commons.httpclient.version>4.3.2</commons.httpclient.version>
     <!--  commons-httpclient/commons-httpclient-->