[jira] [Created] (HADOOP-9384) Update S3 native fs implementation to use AWS SDK to support authorization through roles

["D. Granit (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

D. Granit created HADOOP-9384:
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             Summary: Update S3 native fs implementation to use AWS SDK to support authorization through roles
                 Key: HADOOP-9384
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9384
             Project: Hadoop Common
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: fs/s3
         Environment: Locally: RHEL 6, AWS S3
Remotely: AWS EC2 (RHEL 6), AWS S3
            Reporter: D. Granit


Currently the S3 native implementation {{org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.Jets3tNativeFileSystemStore}} requires credentials to be set explicitly. Amazon allows setting credentials for instances instead of users, via roles. Such are rotated frequently and kept in a local cache all of which is handled by the AWS SDK in this case the {{AmazonS3Client}}. The SDK follows a specific order to establish whether credentials are set explicitly or via a role:
- Environment Variables: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and AWS_SECRET_KEY
- Java System Properties: aws.accessKeyId and aws.secretKey
- Instance Metadata Service, which provides the credentials associated with the IAM role for the EC2 instance
as seen in http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/role-usecase-ec2app.html

To support this feature the current {{NativeFileSystemStore}} implementation needs to be altered to use the AWS SDK instead of the JetS3t S3 libraries.

A request for this feature has previously been raised as part of the Flume project (FLUME-1691) where the HDFS on top of S3 implementation is used as a manner of logging into S3 via an HDFS Sink.


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