diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java
index 5219b04f1797d..86b9319ca1ad1 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java
@@ -888,6 +888,7 @@ private void bindAWSClient(URI name, boolean dtEnabled) throws IOException {
     S3ClientFactory.S3ClientCreationParameters parameters = null;
     parameters = new S3ClientFactory.S3ClientCreationParameters()
         .withCredentialSet(credentials)
+        .withPath(name)
         .withEndpoint(endpoint)
         .withMetrics(statisticsContext.newStatisticsFromAwsSdk())
         .withPathStyleAccess(conf.getBoolean(PATH_STYLE_ACCESS, false))
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3ClientFactory.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3ClientFactory.java
index 5ef99ed6f5c3c..6ff239c6d826f 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3ClientFactory.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3ClientFactory.java
@@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ final class S3ClientCreationParameters {
      */
     private String userAgentSuffix = "";
 
+    /**
+     * S3A path.
+     * added in HADOOP-18330
+     */
+    private URI pathUri;
+
     /**
      * List of request handlers to include in the chain
      * of request execution in the SDK.
@@ -264,5 +270,26 @@ public S3ClientCreationParameters withHeader(
     public Map<String, String> getHeaders() {
       return headers;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Get the full s3 path.
+     * added in HADOOP-18330
+     * @return path URI
+     */
+    public URI getPath() {
+      return pathUri;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Set full s3a path.
+     * added in HADOOP-18330
+     * @param value new value
+     * @return the builder
+     */
+    public S3ClientCreationParameters withPath(
+            final URI value) {
+      pathUri = value;
+      return this;
+    }
   }
 }
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/ITestS3AEndpointRegion.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/ITestS3AEndpointRegion.java
index 761dd558063ba..db19a6bb85806 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/ITestS3AEndpointRegion.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/ITestS3AEndpointRegion.java
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ private AmazonS3 createS3Client(Configuration conf,
     S3ClientFactory.S3ClientCreationParameters parameters
         = new S3ClientFactory.S3ClientCreationParameters()
         .withCredentialSet(new AnonymousAWSCredentialsProvider())
+        .withPath(new URI("s3a://localhost/"))
         .withEndpoint(endpoint)
         .withMetrics(new EmptyS3AStatisticsContext()
             .newStatisticsFromAwsSdk());
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/auth/delegation/ITestSessionDelegationInFileystem.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/auth/delegation/ITestSessionDelegationInFileystem.java
index 47fad292156b0..767848f65c7fb 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/auth/delegation/ITestSessionDelegationInFileystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/auth/delegation/ITestSessionDelegationInFileystem.java
@@ -590,6 +590,7 @@ protected ObjectMetadata readLandsatMetadata(final S3AFileSystem delegatedFS)
     S3ClientFactory.S3ClientCreationParameters parameters = null;
     parameters = new S3ClientFactory.S3ClientCreationParameters()
         .withCredentialSet(testingCreds)
+        .withPath(new URI("s3a://localhost/"))
         .withEndpoint(DEFAULT_ENDPOINT)
         .withMetrics(new EmptyS3AStatisticsContext()
             .newStatisticsFromAwsSdk())