Hi Seth As described in the document you linked, I added the following entries to my core-site.xml <property> <name>fs.s3a.access.key</name> <value>your_access_key</value> </property> <property> <name>fs.s3a.secret.key</name> <value>your_secret_key</value> </property> I then restarted Impala and hive services.  But when i issue impala shell command to create a table whose files are stored on S3  i am still getting an error about S3 credentials not being available.    This is the command -    impala-shell -i serverName -d schemaName -q "CREATE TABLE s3_test_tbl( \ yr_mnth STRING , \ p_id DOUBLE , \ p_full_na STRING  ) \ STORED AS PARQUET \ LOCATION 's3a://bucketname/path/'"   And this is the error i get -    No AWS Credentials provided by BasicAWSCredentialsProvider EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider SharedInstanceProfileCredentialsProvider : com.amazonaws.SdkClientException: Unable to load credentials from service endpoint CAUSED BY: InterruptedIOException: doesBucketExist on biapps-snowflake-sbx-ascap: com.amazonaws.AmazonClientException: No AWS Credentials provided by BasicAWSCredentialsProvider EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider SharedInstanceProfileCredentialsProvider : com.amazonaws.SdkClientException: Unable to load credentials from service endpoint CAUSED BY: AmazonClientException: No AWS Credentials provided by BasicAWSCredentialsProvider EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider SharedInstanceProfileCredentialsProvider : com.amazonaws.SdkClientException: Unable to load credentials from service endpoint CAUSED BY: SdkClientException: Unable to load credentials from service endpoint CAUSED BY: SocketTimeoutException: connect timed out ... View more