diff --git a/plugins/out_kinesis_firehose/firehose.c b/plugins/out_kinesis_firehose/firehose.c
index 1b7203ee465..d3054eec975 100644
--- a/plugins/out_kinesis_firehose/firehose.c
+++ b/plugins/out_kinesis_firehose/firehose.c
@@ -243,6 +243,7 @@ static int cb_firehose_init(struct flb_output_instance *ins,
     ctx->firehose_client->has_auth = FLB_TRUE;
     ctx->firehose_client->provider = ctx->aws_provider;
     ctx->firehose_client->region = (char *) ctx->region;
+    ctx->firehose_client->retry_requests = ctx->retry_requests;
     ctx->firehose_client->service = "firehose";
     ctx->firehose_client->port = 443;
     ctx->firehose_client->flags = 0;
@@ -436,6 +437,16 @@ static struct flb_config_map config_map[] = {
      "the log message will be sent to Firehose."
     },
 
+    {
+     FLB_CONFIG_MAP_BOOL, "auto_retry_requests", "false",
+     0, FLB_TRUE, offsetof(struct flb_firehose, retry_requests),
+     "Immediately retry failed requests to AWS services once. This option "
+     "does not affect the normal Fluent Bit retry mechanism with backoff. "
+     "Instead, it enables an immediate retry with no delay for networking "
+     "errors, which may help improve throughput when there are transient/random "
+     "networking issues."
+    },
+
     /* EOF */
     {0}
 };
diff --git a/plugins/out_kinesis_firehose/firehose.h b/plugins/out_kinesis_firehose/firehose.h
index 329be7bf8a1..7f84e0002dc 100644
--- a/plugins/out_kinesis_firehose/firehose.h
+++ b/plugins/out_kinesis_firehose/firehose.h
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ struct flb_firehose {
     const char *log_key;
     char *sts_endpoint;
     int custom_endpoint;
+    int retry_requests;
 
     /* must be freed on shutdown if custom_endpoint is not set */
     char *endpoint;