diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AUtils.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AUtils.java
index 49f8862c3b4..dedbfd420d0 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AUtils.java
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import java.io.EOFException;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InterruptedIOException;
 import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.lang.reflect.Modifier;
@@ -113,6 +114,10 @@ public final class S3AUtils {
         path != null ? (" on " + path) : "",
         exception);
     if (!(exception instanceof AmazonServiceException)) {
+      if (containsInterruptedException(exception)) {
+        return (IOException)new InterruptedIOException(message)
+            .initCause(exception);
+      }
       return new AWSClientIOException(message, exception);
     } else {
 
@@ -194,6 +199,24 @@ public final class S3AUtils {
     return ioe;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Recurse down the exception loop looking for any inner details about
+   * an interrupted exception.
+   * @param thrown exception thrown
+   * @return true if down the execution chain the operation was an interrupt
+   */
+  static boolean containsInterruptedException(Throwable thrown) {
+    if (thrown == null) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    if (thrown instanceof InterruptedException ||
+        thrown instanceof InterruptedIOException) {
+      return true;
+    }
+    // tail recurse
+    return containsInterruptedException(thrown.getCause());
+  }
+
   /**
    * Get low level details of an amazon exception for logging; multi-line.
    * @param e exception
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/TestS3AExceptionTranslation.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/TestS3AExceptionTranslation.java
index a7dafa06c18..e548ac24b9d 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/TestS3AExceptionTranslation.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/TestS3AExceptionTranslation.java
@@ -25,9 +25,12 @@ import static org.junit.Assert.*;
 
 import java.io.EOFException;
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InterruptedIOException;
 import java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
 
 import com.amazonaws.AmazonClientException;
 import com.amazonaws.AmazonServiceException;
@@ -124,4 +127,39 @@ public class TestS3AExceptionTranslation {
     return verifyExceptionClass(clazz,
         translateException("test", "/", exception));
   }
+
+  private void assertContainsInterrupted(boolean expected, Throwable thrown)
+      throws Throwable {
+    if (containsInterruptedException(thrown) != expected) {
+      throw thrown;
+    }
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testInterruptExceptionDetecting() throws Throwable {
+    InterruptedException interrupted = new InterruptedException("irq");
+    assertContainsInterrupted(true, interrupted);
+    IOException ioe = new IOException("ioe");
+    assertContainsInterrupted(false, ioe);
+    assertContainsInterrupted(true, ioe.initCause(interrupted));
+    assertContainsInterrupted(true,
+        new InterruptedIOException("ioirq"));
+  }
+
+  @Test(expected = InterruptedIOException.class)
+  public void testExtractInterrupted() throws Throwable {
+    throw extractException("", "",
+        new ExecutionException(
+            new AmazonClientException(
+                new InterruptedException(""))));
+  }
+
+  @Test(expected = InterruptedIOException.class)
+  public void testExtractInterruptedIO() throws Throwable {
+    throw extractException("", "",
+        new ExecutionException(
+            new AmazonClientException(
+              new InterruptedIOException(""))));
+  }
+
 }