Thats interesting.  Let me make sure my understanding is correct. 1. So after configuring password through jceks, there are failures if "Generate HADOOP_CREDSTORE_PASSWORD" is unchecked. Can I please have the full exception, just want to make sure if the full exception points to anything else in latest failure. 2. Did you also remove the properties you already had added i.e "<name>fs.s3a.access.key</name> <name>fs.s3a.secret.key</name>" in core-site.xml ... View more