@demiter  another option is to access S3 via Impala. You then execute your SAS queries against Impala.   Configuring the Amazon S3 Connector You can securely configure your cluster to authenticate with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) using the Cloudera S3 Connector Service. This configuration enables Impala queries to access data in S3 and also enables the Hue S3 Browser. Impala and Hue are automatically configured to authenticate with S3, but applications such as YARN, MapReduce, or Spark must provide their own AWS credentials when submitting jobs. You can define only one Amazon S3 service for each cluster. https://www.cloudera.com/documentation/enterprise/5-15-x/topics/admin_s3_config.html  ... View more