[HBASE-16544] Remove or Clarify 'Using Amazon S3 Storage' section in the reference guide

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: documentation, Filesystem Integration
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Yi Liang
• Reporter: Yi Liang
• Created: 01/Sep/16 18:25
• Updated: 17/Sep/16 05:00
• Resolved: 08/Sep/16 01:53

Description

reference guide at https://hbase.apache.org/book.html#amazon_s3_configuration

(1) the title 'Using Amazon S3 Storage' is confusing.From my point of view, I think this title means that we can use S3 storage to replace HDFS, I really tried this , always give me errors and hbase even can not start, see error mentioned in jira HBASE-11045.

(2) And the details in this section are more about deploying HBase on Amazon EC2 cluster, which has nothing to do 'using Amazon S3 storage'

(3) In all, I think we need to remove this section, or at least clarify this section if someone fully test HBase on S3. see HBASE-15646 for more details about this doc.