diff --git a/data-prepper-plugins/avro-codecs/src/main/java/org/opensearch/dataprepper/plugins/codec/avro/AvroInputCodec.java b/data-prepper-plugins/avro-codecs/src/main/java/org/opensearch/dataprepper/plugins/codec/avro/AvroInputCodec.java
index a8fc61e2fc..cb03946585 100644
--- a/data-prepper-plugins/avro-codecs/src/main/java/org/opensearch/dataprepper/plugins/codec/avro/AvroInputCodec.java
+++ b/data-prepper-plugins/avro-codecs/src/main/java/org/opensearch/dataprepper/plugins/codec/avro/AvroInputCodec.java
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@ else if(value instanceof Utf8){
                 value = new String(utf8Bytes, "UTF-8");
             }
 
+            else if(value instanceof GenericData.Fixed){
+                value = ((GenericData.Fixed) value).bytes();
+            }
+
             eventData.put(field.name(), value);
         }
         return eventData;