diff --git a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/DefaultSource.scala b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/DefaultSource.scala
index c0fe84f2e..cbe78b13b 100644
--- a/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/DefaultSource.scala
+++ b/hudi-spark-datasource/hudi-spark-common/src/main/scala/org/apache/hudi/DefaultSource.scala
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ class DefaultSource extends RelationProvider
       // Enable "passPartitionByAsOptions" to support "write.partitionBy(...)"
       spark.conf.set("spark.sql.legacy.sources.write.passPartitionByAsOptions", "true")
     }
+    // Revisit EMR Spark and EMRFS incompatibilities, for now disable
+    spark.conf.set("spark.sql.dataPrefetch.enabled", "false")
+    spark.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration.set("fs.s3.metadata.cache.expiration.seconds", "0")
   }
 
   private val log = LogManager.getLogger(classOf[DefaultSource])