diff --git a/extras/kinesis-asl/pom.xml b/extras/kinesis-asl/pom.xml
index 3c5722502e5c1..20e2c5e0ffbee 100644
--- a/extras/kinesis-asl/pom.xml
+++ b/extras/kinesis-asl/pom.xml
@@ -59,11 +59,6 @@
       <artifactId>amazon-kinesis-client</artifactId>
       <version>${aws.kinesis.client.version}</version>
     </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
-      <artifactId>aws-java-sdk</artifactId>
-      <version>${aws.java.sdk.version}</version>
-    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
       <artifactId>amazon-kinesis-producer</artifactId>
diff --git a/extras/kinesis-asl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisReceiver.scala b/extras/kinesis-asl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisReceiver.scala
index 80edda59e1719..abb9b6cd32f1c 100644
--- a/extras/kinesis-asl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisReceiver.scala
+++ b/extras/kinesis-asl/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/kinesis/KinesisReceiver.scala
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ private[kinesis] class KinesisReceiver[T](
     workerThread.setName(s"Kinesis Receiver ${streamId}")
     workerThread.setDaemon(true)
     workerThread.start()
+
     logInfo(s"Started receiver with workerId $workerId")
   }
 
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 284c219519bca..9f4e5a23c5219 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -152,7 +152,6 @@
     <avro.version>1.7.7</avro.version>
     <avro.mapred.classifier>hadoop2</avro.mapred.classifier>
     <jets3t.version>0.7.1</jets3t.version>
-    <aws.java.sdk.version>1.9.40</aws.java.sdk.version>
     <aws.kinesis.client.version>1.4.0</aws.kinesis.client.version>
     <!-- the producer is used in tests -->
     <aws.kinesis.producer.version>0.10.1</aws.kinesis.producer.version>