Hi Daan, I tried a different SSH tunnel and it worked for me: ssh -L 12345:localhost:21050 your_user_name@your_node.compute.amazonaws.com This opens up a port 12345 on your local machine and forwards it to port 21050 on the hadoop node. More info here: http://marcelkrcah.net/blog/how-to-wire-pandas-to-impala/ ... View more