diff --git a/logstash-core/lib/logstash/util/wrapped_acked_queue.rb b/logstash-core/lib/logstash/util/wrapped_acked_queue.rb
index 5f28bb753..680f86126 100644
--- a/logstash-core/lib/logstash/util/wrapped_acked_queue.rb
+++ b/logstash-core/lib/logstash/util/wrapped_acked_queue.rb
@@ -31,12 +31,12 @@ module LogStash; module Util
     def with_queue(queue)
       @queue = queue
       @queue.open
-      @closed = Concurrent::AtomicBoolean.new(false)
+      @closed = java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean.new(false)
       self
     end
 
     def closed?
-      @closed.true?
+      @closed.get
     end
 
     # Push an object to the queue if the queue is full
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ module LogStash; module Util
     end
 
     def write_client
-      WriteClient.new(self)
+      LogStash::AckedWriteClient.create(@queue, @closed)
     end
 
     def read_client()
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ module LogStash; module Util
     end
 
     def check_closed(action)
-      if closed?
+      if @closed.get
         raise QueueClosedError.new("Attempted to #{action} on a closed AckedQueue")
       end
     end
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ module LogStash; module Util
 
     def close
       @queue.close
-      @closed.make_true
+      @closed.set(true)
     end
 
     class ReadClient
@@ -222,28 +222,5 @@ module LogStash; module Util
         @originals.size + @generated.size
       end
     end
-
-    class WriteClient
-      def initialize(queue)
-        @queue = queue
-      end
-
-      def push(event)
-        if @queue.closed?
-          raise QueueClosedError.new("Attempted to write an event to a closed AckedQueue")
-        end
-        @queue.push(event)
-      end
-      alias_method(:<<, :push)
-
-      def push_batch(batch)
-        if @queue.closed?
-          raise QueueClosedError.new("Attempted to write a batch to a closed AckedQueue")
-        end
-        batch.each do |event|
-          push(event)
-        end
-      end
-    end
   end
 end end
diff --git a/logstash-core/src/main/java/org/logstash/RubyUtil.java b/logstash-core/src/main/java/org/logstash/RubyUtil.java
index 4d407a12a..fe9776bf7 100644
--- a/logstash-core/src/main/java/org/logstash/RubyUtil.java
+++ b/logstash-core/src/main/java/org/logstash/RubyUtil.java
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import org.jruby.runtime.ObjectAllocator;
 import org.logstash.ackedqueue.ext.JRubyAckedQueueExt;
 import org.logstash.ackedqueue.ext.RubyAckedBatch;
 import org.logstash.ext.JRubyWrappedWriteClientExt;
+import org.logstash.ext.JrubyAckedWriteClientExt;
 import org.logstash.ext.JrubyEventExtLibrary;
 import org.logstash.ext.JrubyMemoryReadBatchExt;
 import org.logstash.ext.JrubyMemoryReadClientExt;
@@ -55,6 +56,8 @@ public final class RubyUtil {
 
     public static final RubyClass MEMORY_WRITE_CLIENT_CLASS;
 
+    public static final RubyClass ACKED_WRITE_CLIENT_CLASS;
+
     public static final RubyClass WRAPPED_SYNCHRONOUS_QUEUE_CLASS;
 
     static {
@@ -71,6 +74,8 @@ public final class RubyUtil {
             setupLogstashClass(JrubyMemoryReadClientExt::new, JrubyMemoryReadClientExt.class);
         MEMORY_WRITE_CLIENT_CLASS =
             setupLogstashClass(JrubyMemoryWriteClientExt::new, JrubyMemoryWriteClientExt.class);
+        ACKED_WRITE_CLIENT_CLASS =
+            setupLogstashClass(JrubyAckedWriteClientExt::new, JrubyAckedWriteClientExt.class);
         WRAPPED_SYNCHRONOUS_QUEUE_CLASS =
             setupLogstashClass(JrubyWrappedSynchronousQueueExt::new,
                     JrubyWrappedSynchronousQueueExt.class);
diff --git a/logstash-core/src/main/java/org/logstash/ext/JrubyAckedWriteClientExt.java b/logstash-core/src/main/java/org/logstash/ext/JrubyAckedWriteClientExt.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..666ec7668
--- /dev/null
+++ b/logstash-core/src/main/java/org/logstash/ext/JrubyAckedWriteClientExt.java
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+package org.logstash.ext;
+
+import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
+import org.jruby.Ruby;
+import org.jruby.RubyClass;
+import org.jruby.RubyObject;
+import org.jruby.anno.JRubyClass;
+import org.jruby.anno.JRubyMethod;
+import org.jruby.runtime.ThreadContext;
+import org.jruby.runtime.builtin.IRubyObject;
+import org.logstash.RubyUtil;
+import org.logstash.ackedqueue.ext.JRubyAckedQueueExt;
+
+@JRubyClass(name = "AckedWriteClient")
+public final class JrubyAckedWriteClientExt extends RubyObject {
+
+    private JRubyAckedQueueExt queue;
+
+    private AtomicBoolean closed;
+
+    @JRubyMethod(meta = true, required = 2)
+    public static IRubyObject create(final ThreadContext context, IRubyObject recv,
+        final IRubyObject queue, final IRubyObject closed) {
+        return new JrubyAckedWriteClientExt(
+            context.runtime, RubyUtil.ACKED_WRITE_CLIENT_CLASS,
+            (JRubyAckedQueueExt) queue.toJava(
+                JRubyAckedQueueExt.class
+            ),
+            (AtomicBoolean) closed.toJava(AtomicBoolean.class)
+        );
+    }
+
+    public JrubyAckedWriteClientExt(final Ruby runtime, final RubyClass metaClass) {
+        super(runtime, metaClass);
+    }
+
+    private JrubyAckedWriteClientExt(final Ruby runtime, final RubyClass metaClass,
+        final JRubyAckedQueueExt queue, final AtomicBoolean closed) {
+        super(runtime, metaClass);
+        this.queue = queue;
+        this.closed = closed;
+    }
+
+    @JRubyMethod(name = {"push", "<<"}, required = 1)
+    public IRubyObject rubyPush(final ThreadContext context, IRubyObject event) {
+        ensureOpen();
+        queue.ruby_write(context, event);
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    @JRubyMethod(name = "push_batch", required = 1)
+    public IRubyObject rubyPushBatch(final ThreadContext context, IRubyObject batch) {
+        ensureOpen();
+        for (final IRubyObject event : (Collection<JrubyEventExtLibrary.RubyEvent>) batch) {
+            queue.ruby_write(context, event);
+        }
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    private void ensureOpen() {
+        if (closed.get()) {
+            throw new IllegalStateException("Tried to write to a closed queue.");
+        }
+    }
+}