diff --git a/hadoop-cloud/pom.xml b/hadoop-cloud/pom.xml
index 31c729c50173..02734e82ed26 100644
--- a/hadoop-cloud/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-cloud/pom.xml
@@ -100,6 +100,11 @@
           <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
           <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
         </exclusion>
+        <!-- Keep old SDK out of the assembly to avoid conflict with Kinesis module -->
+        <exclusion>
+          <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
+          <artifactId>aws-java-sdk</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>