diff --git a/libs/community/langchain_community/retrievers/kendra.py b/libs/community/langchain_community/retrievers/kendra.py
index ec1554c0abf..e93ef3ff569 100644
--- a/libs/community/langchain_community/retrievers/kendra.py
+++ b/libs/community/langchain_community/retrievers/kendra.py
@@ -379,7 +379,9 @@ class AmazonKendraRetriever(BaseRetriever):
     def _kendra_query(self, query: str) -> Sequence[ResultItem]:
         kendra_kwargs = {
             "IndexId": self.index_id,
-            "QueryText": query.strip(),
+            # truncate the query to ensure that
+            # there is no validation exception from Kendra.
+            "QueryText": query.strip()[0:999],
             "PageSize": self.top_k,
         }
         if self.attribute_filter is not None: