S3 Support in Apache Hadoop Apache Hadoop ships with a connector to S3 called "S3A", with the url prefix "s3a:"; its previous connectors "s3", and "s3n" are deprecated and/or deleted from recent Hadoop versions. Consult the Latest Hadoop documentation for the specifics on using any the S3A connector. For Hadoop 2.x releases, the latest troubleshooting documentation. For Hadoop 3.x releases, the la