Thanks for the response. I have read over all of the provided links.  Below are additional details: Configured external accounts using both Access Key Credentials and IAM role authentication. Neither works but I am not clear on what credentials need to be assigned to the IAM role or access key's account.   Tried to setup a replication schedule for HDFS with each external account as the destination. Tried using "root" or root-like account on the underlying linux system(s) and "admin" from the cloudera gui. Tried both static and dynamic replication strategy No errors appear on the dialog and no errors appear in cloudera events or logs.   Is there something else to check?   ... View more