diff --git a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-eventstream/Cargo.toml b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-eventstream/Cargo.toml
index a77aff9e85..ba924539c9 100644
--- a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-eventstream/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-eventstream/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ repository = "https://github.com/awslabs/smithy-rs"
 
 [features]
 derive-arbitrary = ["arbitrary", "derive_arbitrary"]
+serde-serialize = []
+serde-deserialize = []
 
 [dependencies]
 derive_arbitrary = { version = "=1.1.6", optional = true } # 1.2.0 requires Rust 1.63 to compile
diff --git a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-eventstream/external-types.toml b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-eventstream/external-types.toml
index 2e54673ff5..987e8f46d9 100644
--- a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-eventstream/external-types.toml
+++ b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-eventstream/external-types.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 allowed_external_types = [
+    "serde::de::Deserialize",
+    "serde::ser::Serialize",
     "aws_smithy_types::*",
     "bytes::buf::buf_impl::Buf",
     "bytes::buf::buf_mut::BufMut",
diff --git a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-eventstream/src/error.rs b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-eventstream/src/error.rs
index bda5ff900d..fcd717683c 100644
--- a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-eventstream/src/error.rs
+++ b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-eventstream/src/error.rs
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ pub(crate) enum ErrorKind {
     TimestampValueTooLarge(DateTime),
     Marshalling(String),
     Unmarshalling(String),
+    DeserializedStream,
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
@@ -51,6 +52,12 @@ impl Error {
             kind: ErrorKind::Unmarshalling(message.into()),
         }
     }
+
+    pub const fn deserialized_stream() -> Self {
+        Self {
+            kind: ErrorKind::DeserializedStream,
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 impl From<ErrorKind> for Error {
@@ -92,6 +99,10 @@ impl fmt::Display for Error {
             ),
             Marshalling(error) => write!(f, "failed to marshall message: {}", error),
             Unmarshalling(error) => write!(f, "failed to unmarshall message: {}", error),
+            DeserializedStream => write!(
+                f,
+                "this is a deserialized stream. No message can be sent or be received."
+            ),
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/Cargo.toml b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/Cargo.toml
index 23bb28437d..33ecdb9635 100644
--- a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/Cargo.toml
+++ b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ repository = "https://github.com/awslabs/smithy-rs"
 [features]
 rt-tokio = ["tokio/rt", "tokio/fs", "tokio/io-util", "tokio-util/io"]
 event-stream = ["aws-smithy-eventstream"]
+serde-serialize = ["aws-smithy-eventstream/serde-serialize"]
+serde-deserialize = ["aws-smithy-eventstream/serde-deserialize"]
 
 [dependencies]
 aws-smithy-eventstream = { path = "../aws-smithy-eventstream", optional = true }
diff --git a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/external-types.toml b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/external-types.toml
index a3dbbce3c5..a36378a4ca 100644
--- a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/external-types.toml
+++ b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/external-types.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 allowed_external_types = [
+    "serde::de::Deserialize",
+    "serde::ser::Serialize",
+
     "aws_smithy_types::*",
     "bytes::buf::buf_impl::Buf",
     "bytes::bytes::Bytes",
diff --git a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/src/event_stream.rs b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/src/event_stream.rs
index 8b09a5bb90..8c7e596df3 100644
--- a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/src/event_stream.rs
+++ b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/src/event_stream.rs
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ use std::error::Error as StdError;
 mod receiver;
 mod sender;
 
+#[cfg(all(aws_sdk_unstable, feature = "serde-deserialized"))]
+mod deserialized_stream;
+
 pub type BoxError = Box<dyn StdError + Send + Sync + 'static>;
 
 #[doc(inline)]
@@ -17,3 +20,5 @@ pub use sender::{EventStreamSender, MessageStreamAdapter, MessageStreamError};
 
 #[doc(inline)]
 pub use receiver::{RawMessage, Receiver, ReceiverError};
+
+pub use deserialized_stream::*;
diff --git a/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/src/event_stream/deserialized_stream.rs b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/src/event_stream/deserialized_stream.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f8c2bca09c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust-runtime/aws-smithy-http/src/event_stream/deserialized_stream.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+use receiver::{RawMessage, Receiver};
+
+use super::*;
+use aws_smithy_eventstream::frame::UnmarshallMessage;
+use std::{fmt::Debug, marker::PhantomData};
+/// This data is used to fill a field when the users try to deserialize data that has a Receiver in one of the field.
+pub struct DeserializedReceiverStream<T, E>(PhantomData<(T, E)>);
+impl<T, E> Debug for DeserializedReceiverStream<T, E> {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        f.write_str("DeserializedStream")
+    }
+}
+impl<T, E> DeserializedReceiverStream<T, E>
+where
+    T: std::fmt::Debug,
+    E: std::fmt::Debug,
+{
+    /// default value
+    pub fn create() -> impl UnmarshallMessage<Output = T, Error = E> {
+        Self(PhantomData::<(T, E)>)
+    }
+}
+
+impl<T, E> UnmarshallMessage for DeserializedReceiverStream<T, E>
+where
+    T: Debug,
+    E: Debug,
+{
+    type Error = E;
+    type Output = T;
+    fn unmarshall(
+        &self,
+        _: &aws_smithy_eventstream::frame::Message,
+    ) -> Result<
+        aws_smithy_eventstream::frame::UnmarshalledMessage<Self::Output, Self::Error>,
+        aws_smithy_eventstream::error::Error,
+    > {
+        Err(aws_smithy_eventstream::error::Error::deserialized_stream())
+    }
+}
+
+/// Error returned from Deserialized Stream.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct DeserializedStreamError;
+
+impl StdError for DeserializedStreamError {}
+impl std::fmt::Display for DeserializedStreamError {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        f.write_str("Stream was deserialized")
+    }
+}