diff --git a/cdap-app-fabric/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/internal/app/runtime/AbstractContext.java b/cdap-app-fabric/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/internal/app/runtime/AbstractContext.java
index de28480620d7..b5a7d887703e 100644
--- a/cdap-app-fabric/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/internal/app/runtime/AbstractContext.java
+++ b/cdap-app-fabric/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/internal/app/runtime/AbstractContext.java
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@
 import io.cdap.cdap.common.internal.remote.RemoteClientFactory;
 import io.cdap.cdap.common.lang.ClassLoaders;
 import io.cdap.cdap.common.lang.CombineClassLoader;
+import io.cdap.cdap.common.lang.FilterClassLoader;
+import io.cdap.cdap.common.lang.FilterClassLoader.Filter;
 import io.cdap.cdap.common.logging.LoggingContext;
 import io.cdap.cdap.common.metrics.NoOpMetricsCollectionService;
 import io.cdap.cdap.common.namespace.NamespaceQueryAdmin;
@@ -732,7 +734,23 @@ protected ClassLoader createProgramInvocationClassLoader() {
     ClassLoader pluginsClassLoader = PluginClassLoaders.createFilteredPluginsClassLoader(
         program.getApplicationSpecification().getPlugins(), pluginInstantiator);
 
-    return new CombineClassLoader(null, program.getClassLoader(), pluginsClassLoader,
+    FilterClassLoader filteredProgramClassLoader = new FilterClassLoader(
+        program.getClassLoader(),
+        new Filter() {
+          @Override
+          public boolean acceptResource(String resource) {
+            return !(resource.contains("org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a")
+                || resource.contains("org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3native"));
+          }
+
+          @Override
+          public boolean acceptPackage(String packageName) {
+            return !(packageName.contains("org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a")
+                || packageName.contains("org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native"));
+          }
+        });
+
+    return new CombineClassLoader(null, filteredProgramClassLoader, pluginsClassLoader,
         getClass().getClassLoader());
   }
 
diff --git a/cdap-app-fabric/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/internal/app/runtime/plugin/PluginClassLoader.java b/cdap-app-fabric/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/internal/app/runtime/plugin/PluginClassLoader.java
index ffb06321fb42..472c68480bdf 100644
--- a/cdap-app-fabric/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/internal/app/runtime/plugin/PluginClassLoader.java
+++ b/cdap-app-fabric/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/internal/app/runtime/plugin/PluginClassLoader.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import io.cdap.cdap.app.program.ManifestFields;
 import io.cdap.cdap.common.lang.CombineClassLoader;
 import io.cdap.cdap.common.lang.DirectoryClassLoader;
+import io.cdap.cdap.common.lang.FilterClassLoader.Filter;
 import io.cdap.cdap.common.lang.PackageFilterClassLoader;
 import io.cdap.cdap.internal.app.runtime.ProgramClassLoader;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -79,8 +80,12 @@ static ClassLoader createParent(ClassLoader templateClassLoader) {
     // from the parent of the template program class loader (which is a filtered
     // CDAP classloader), followed by template export-packages, then by a plugin
     // lib jars.
+    PackageFilterClassLoader parent =
+        new PackageFilterClassLoader(programClassLoader.getParent(),
+            (packageName) -> !(packageName.contains("org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a")
+                || packageName.contains("org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native")));
     CombineClassLoader classLoader = new CombineClassLoader(
-        programClassLoader.getParent(), filteredTemplateClassLoader);
+        parent, filteredTemplateClassLoader);
     // Creating a CloseableClassLoader ensures that the caller can close the
     // PackageFilterClassLoader that is held by the CombineClassLoader.
     return new CloseableClassLoader(classLoader, filteredTemplateClassLoader);
@@ -93,6 +98,20 @@ static ClassLoader createParent(ClassLoader templateClassLoader) {
     this.exportPackages = ManifestFields.getExportPackages(getManifest());
   }
 
+  // @Override
+  // protected synchronized Class<?> loadClass(String name, boolean resolve)
+  //     throws ClassNotFoundException {
+  //   if (exportPackages.contains(getPackage(name))) {
+  //     try {
+  //       return findClass(name);
+  //     } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+  //       return super.loadClass(name, resolve);
+  //     }
+  //   } else {
+  //     return super.loadClass(name, resolve);
+  //   }
+  // }
+
   /**
    * @return the plugin's artifact id
    */
diff --git a/cdap-spark-core-base/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/app/runtime/spark/SparkClassLoader.java b/cdap-spark-core-base/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/app/runtime/spark/SparkClassLoader.java
index 73cfe50f97e7..e2c7a6ec48df 100644
--- a/cdap-spark-core-base/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/app/runtime/spark/SparkClassLoader.java
+++ b/cdap-spark-core-base/src/main/java/io/cdap/cdap/app/runtime/spark/SparkClassLoader.java
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
 import io.cdap.cdap.api.spark.SparkExecutionContext;
 import io.cdap.cdap.common.lang.ClassLoaders;
 import io.cdap.cdap.common.lang.CombineClassLoader;
+import io.cdap.cdap.common.lang.FilterClassLoader;
+import io.cdap.cdap.common.lang.FilterClassLoader.Filter;
 import io.cdap.cdap.internal.app.runtime.ProgramClassLoader;
 import io.cdap.cdap.internal.app.runtime.plugin.PluginClassLoaders;
 import org.apache.spark.SparkConf;
@@ -122,11 +124,27 @@ public JavaSparkExecutionContext createJavaExecutionContext(SparkExecutionContex
    * Creates the delegating list of ClassLoader. Used by constructor only.
    */
   private static List<ClassLoader> createDelegateClassLoaders(SparkRuntimeContext context) {
+    FilterClassLoader filteredProgramClassLoader = new FilterClassLoader(
+        context.getProgram().getClassLoader(),
+        new Filter() {
+          @Override
+          public boolean acceptResource(String resource) {
+            return !(resource.contains("org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a")
+                || resource.contains("org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3native"));
+          }
+
+          @Override
+          public boolean acceptPackage(String packageName) {
+            return !(packageName.contains("org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a")
+                || packageName.contains("org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native"));
+          }
+        });
     return Arrays.asList(
-      context.getProgram().getClassLoader(),
-      PluginClassLoaders.createFilteredPluginsClassLoader(context.getApplicationSpecification().getPlugins(),
-                                                          context.getPluginInstantiator()),
-      SparkClassLoader.class.getClassLoader()
+        filteredProgramClassLoader,
+        PluginClassLoaders.createFilteredPluginsClassLoader(
+            context.getApplicationSpecification().getPlugins(),
+            context.getPluginInstantiator()),
+        SparkClassLoader.class.getClassLoader()
     );
   }
 }
diff --git a/cdap-standalone/pom.xml b/cdap-standalone/pom.xml
index 347be68a2e29..9cc11152909d 100644
--- a/cdap-standalone/pom.xml
+++ b/cdap-standalone/pom.xml
@@ -267,71 +267,6 @@
         </exclusion>
       </exclusions>
     </dependency>
-    <!--Amazon S3 dependencies-->
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
-      <artifactId>hadoop-aws</artifactId>
-      <version>${sdk.hadoop.version}</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
-      <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-s3</artifactId>
-      <version>1.11.133</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
-      <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-kms</artifactId>
-      <version>1.11.133</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
-      <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-core</artifactId>
-      <version>1.11.133</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-cbor</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jmespath-java</artifactId>
-      <version>1.11.133</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
-      <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
-      <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
-      <version>2.9.9</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-      <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
-      <version>4.5.2</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>commons-logging</groupId>
-      <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>
-      <version>1.2</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
-      <artifactId>httpcore</artifactId>
-      <version>4.4.4</version>
-      <scope>compile</scope>
-    </dependency>
-    <dependency>
-      <groupId>software.amazon.ion</groupId>
-      <artifactId>ion-java</artifactId>
-      <version>1.0.2</version>
-    </dependency>
-    <!--End of Amazon S3 dependencies-->
     <dependency>
       <groupId>io.cdap.cdap</groupId>
       <artifactId>cdap-ui</artifactId>