Thank you Sean for the answer, I actually misspoke and just need to upgrade to Spark 1.3 (I'm using Spark 1.2).    I've been trying to use this guide:   https://s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart-reference/cloudera/hadoop/latest/doc/Cloudera_EDH_on_AWS.pdf   But I am still only getting Spark 1.2, do you have any suggestions on how I can use this guide to get Spark 1.3? ... View more

Well that's embarrasing, I didn't realize that if kafka came under "add a service" the parcels wouldn't be activiated. Activated them and it now works.   Thanks! ... View more

Forgot to mention. You also need to install Oracle JDK by doing: sudo apt-get install oracle-j2sdk1.7  ... View more