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 0c5e569a1ca..a7e36e4cf30 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
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ public class S3AFileSystem extends FileSystem {
   private S3AInputPolicy inputPolicy;
   private static final AtomicBoolean warnedOfCoreThreadDeprecation =
       new AtomicBoolean(false);
+  private final AtomicBoolean closed = new AtomicBoolean(false);
 
   // The maximum number of entries that can be deleted in any call to s3
   private static final int MAX_ENTRIES_TO_DELETE = 1000;
@@ -1514,7 +1515,11 @@ private void innerCopyFromLocalFile(boolean delSrc, boolean overwrite,
    * @throws IOException IO problem
    */
   @Override
-  public synchronized void close() throws IOException {
+  public void close() throws IOException {
+    if (closed.getAndSet(true)) {
+      // already closed
+      return;
+    }
     try {
       super.close();
     } finally {
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/TestS3AConfiguration.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/TestS3AConfiguration.java
index 3f9a99f4cd3..99934a55a53 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/TestS3AConfiguration.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/TestS3AConfiguration.java
@@ -401,6 +401,14 @@ public void testCustomUserAgent() throws Exception {
         awsConf.getUserAgent());
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testCloseIdempotent() throws Throwable {
+    conf = new Configuration();
+    fs = S3ATestUtils.createTestFileSystem(conf);
+    fs.close();
+    fs.close();
+  }
+
   /**
    * Reads and returns a field from an object using reflection.  If the field
    * cannot be found, is null, or is not the expected type, then this method