Specifying Impala Credentials to Access Data in S3
To allow Impala to access data in S3, specify values for the following configuration settings in your core-site.xml file:
<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>
After specifying the credentials, restart both the Impala and Hive services. Restarting Hive is required because operations such as Impala queries and CREATE TABLE statements go through the Hive metastore.