Despite the above comments about 5.3.3 and 5.4.0, this issue is not fixed in those versions. According to the comments from Jim B on a related thread of mine ( http://community.cloudera.com/t5/Batch-SQL-Apache-Hive/Loading-to-S3-Fails-CDH-5-3-0/m-p/24088#U24088 ) this _IS_ fixed in 5.4.4 ... View more