Hive, S3 and AWS credentials

1. Open Hive cluster page in EMR, get SSH connection address

2. Log into main hive cluster machine using Putty

3. Install S3 (http://s3tools.org/repositories):

  3.1. cd /etc/yum.repos.d

  3.2. sudo wget http://s3tools.org/repo/RHEL_6/s3tools.repo

  3.4. sudo yum install s3cmd

4. configure s3cmd: sudo nano .s3cfg, copy from any EC2 machine

5. aws config

, provide AWS credentials

6. s3cmd now works