diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/src/main/java/software/amazon/kinesis/multilang/config/AwsCredentialsProviderPropertyValueDecoder.java b/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/src/main/java/software/amazon/kinesis/multilang/config/AwsCredentialsProviderPropertyValueDecoder.java
index 777448f8..fc0ff58f 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/src/main/java/software/amazon/kinesis/multilang/config/AwsCredentialsProviderPropertyValueDecoder.java
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/src/main/java/software/amazon/kinesis/multilang/config/AwsCredentialsProviderPropertyValueDecoder.java
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ import java.util.stream.Stream;
 import lombok.extern.slf4j.Slf4j;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsCredentialsProvider;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsCredentialsProviderChain;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.sts.auth.StsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider;
+import software.amazon.kinesis.multilang.auth.KclStsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider;
 
 /**
  * Get AwsCredentialsProvider property.
@@ -184,12 +186,14 @@ class AwsCredentialsProviderPropertyValueDecoder implements IPropertyValueDecode
      * or null if the class cannot be resolved or does not extend AwsCredentialsProvider.
      */
     private static Class<? extends AwsCredentialsProvider> getClass(String providerName) {
-        String className = providerName.replace(
-                "software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.StsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider",
-                "software.amazon.kinesis.multilang.auth.KclStsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider");
+        // Convert any form of StsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider string to KclStsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider
+        if (providerName.equals(StsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider.class.getSimpleName())
+                || providerName.equals(StsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider.class.getName())) {
+            providerName = KclStsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider.class.getName();
+        }
         final Class<? extends AwsCredentialsProvider> clazz;
         try {
-            final Class<?> c = Class.forName(className);
+            final Class<?> c = Class.forName(providerName);
             if (!AwsCredentialsProvider.class.isAssignableFrom(c)) {
                 return null;
             }
diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/src/test/java/software/amazon/kinesis/multilang/config/AWSCredentialsProviderPropertyValueDecoderTest.java b/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/src/test/java/software/amazon/kinesis/multilang/config/AWSCredentialsProviderPropertyValueDecoderTest.java
index 71f97d18..f56c5407 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/src/test/java/software/amazon/kinesis/multilang/config/AWSCredentialsProviderPropertyValueDecoderTest.java
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client-multilang/src/test/java/software/amazon/kinesis/multilang/config/AWSCredentialsProviderPropertyValueDecoderTest.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsBasicCredentials;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsCredentials;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsCredentialsProvider;
 import software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.AwsCredentialsProviderChain;
+import software.amazon.awssdk.services.sts.auth.StsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider;
 import software.amazon.kinesis.multilang.auth.KclStsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider;
 
 import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.equalTo;
@@ -121,7 +122,8 @@ public class AWSCredentialsProviderPropertyValueDecoderTest {
         for (final String className : Arrays.asList(
                 KclStsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider.class.getName(), // fully-qualified name
                 KclStsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider.class.getSimpleName(), // name-only; needs prefix
-                "software.amazon.awssdk.auth.credentials.StsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider")) {
+                StsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider.class.getName(), // user passes full sts package path
+                StsAssumeRoleCredentialsProvider.class.getSimpleName())) {
             final AwsCredentialsProvider provider = decoder.decodeValue(className + "|arn|sessionName");
             assertNotNull(className, provider);
         }