These are two examples of how to copy data from one S3 location to other S3 location. Same operation can be done from S3 to HDFS and vice-versa.

I’m considering that you are able to launch the Hive client or spark-shell client.

Hive:

Using Mapreduce engine or Tez engine:

set hive.execution.engine=mr; 

or

set hive.execution.engine=tez; 

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE source_table(a_col string, b_col string, c_col string)
ROW FORMAT DELIMITED FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
LOCATION 's3://mybucket/hive/csv/';

CREATE TABLE destination_table(a_col string, b_col string, c_col string) LOCATION 's3://mybucket/output-hive/csv_1/';

INSERT OVERWRITE TABLE destination_table SELECT * FROM source_table;

Spark:

sc.textFile("s3://aws-publicdatasets/common-crawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1387346051826/warc/").saveAsTextFile("s3://mybucket/spark/bigfiles")

If you want to copy data to HDFS, you can also explore s3-dist-cp:

s3DistCP:

s3-dist-cp --src s3://mybucket/hive/csv/ --dest=hdfs:///output-hive/csv_10/