Using a S3 Hive Metastore with EMR
When configuring Hive to use EMRFS (i.e. s3://) instead of using the implied HDFS cluster storage of the metastore, which is vital if you want to have a persistent metastore that can survive clusters being destroyed and recreated; you might encounter this message: Access Denied (Service: Amazon S3; Status Code: 403;...) .