diff --git a/flink-connectors/flink-connector-kinesis/pom.xml b/flink-connectors/flink-connector-kinesis/pom.xml
index 388a978c28971..edddad5e4489f 100644
--- a/flink-connectors/flink-connector-kinesis/pom.xml
+++ b/flink-connectors/flink-connector-kinesis/pom.xml
@@ -200,7 +200,8 @@ under the License.
 								</includes>
 							</artifactSet>
 							<relocations combine.children="override">
-								<!-- DO NOT RELOCATE GUAVA IN THIS PACKAGE -->
+								<!-- Do not relocate guava because it is exposed in the Kinesis API (KinesisProducer#addUserRecord).
+								 	Users may be using other affected API's, so relocations may break user-code -->
 								<relocation>
 									<pattern>com.google.protobuf</pattern>
 									<shadedPattern>org.apache.flink.kinesis.shaded.com.google.protobuf</shadedPattern>