diff --git a/paimon-filesystems/paimon-hadoop-shaded-3.4/pom.xml b/paimon-filesystems/paimon-hadoop-shaded-3.4/pom.xml
index 328977f23ad6..29ed882e6ff6 100644
--- a/paimon-filesystems/paimon-hadoop-shaded-3.4/pom.xml
+++ b/paimon-filesystems/paimon-hadoop-shaded-3.4/pom.xml
@@ -130,6 +130,12 @@
                     <groupId>org.apache.kerby</groupId>
                     <artifactId>kerb-simplekdc</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <!-- Hadoop uses hadoop-shaded-guava. The unshaded copy is only needed by Curator,
+                         which is excluded below. -->
+                    <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
                 <exclusion>
                     <groupId>org.apache.curator</groupId>
                     <artifactId>curator-client</artifactId>
diff --git a/paimon-filesystems/paimon-hadoop-shaded-3.4/src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE b/paimon-filesystems/paimon-hadoop-shaded-3.4/src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE
index 814ba28142d5..b13ed8fb8411 100644
--- a/paimon-filesystems/paimon-hadoop-shaded-3.4/src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE
+++ b/paimon-filesystems/paimon-hadoop-shaded-3.4/src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE
@@ -10,10 +10,6 @@ This project bundles the following dependencies under the Apache Software Licens
 - com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.12.7
 - com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.12.7
 - com.fasterxml.woodstox:woodstox-core:5.3.0
-- com.google.guava:failureaccess:1.0
-- com.google.guava:guava:27.0-jre
-- com.google.guava:listenablefuture:9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava
-- com.google.j2objc:j2objc-annotations:1.1
 - commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:1.9.4
 - commons-collections:commons-collections:3.2.2
 - commons-io:commons-io:2.8.0
@@ -35,10 +31,7 @@ This project bundles the following dependencies under the Apache Software Licens
 - com.google.code.findbugs:jsr305:1.3.9
 
 This project bundles the following dependencies under the MIT (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
-You find them under licenses/LICENSE.checker-framework-qualifiers and licenses/LICENSE.animal-sniffer.
 
-- org.checkerframework:checker-qual:2.5.2
-- org.codehaus.mojo:animal-sniffer-annotations:1.17
 - org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.32
 
 This project bundles the following dependencies under BSD-2 License (https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause).
diff --git a/paimon-filesystems/paimon-s3-impl/pom.xml b/paimon-filesystems/paimon-s3-impl/pom.xml
index dd58b52d6314..7dd9d0fdbd2c 100644
--- a/paimon-filesystems/paimon-s3-impl/pom.xml
+++ b/paimon-filesystems/paimon-s3-impl/pom.xml
@@ -49,27 +49,12 @@
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
 
-        <!-- AWS dependencies (bundled) -->
+        <!-- AWS SDK v1 support for legacy credential providers. S3A uses SDK v2 clients. -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
             <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-core</artifactId>
             <version>${fs.s3.aws.version}</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
-            <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-s3</artifactId>
-            <version>${fs.s3.aws.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
-            <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-kms</artifactId>
-            <version>${fs.s3.aws.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
-            <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-dynamodb</artifactId>
-            <version>${fs.s3.aws.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
             <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-sts</artifactId>
@@ -111,7 +96,9 @@
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
 
-        <!-- AWS SDK v2 dependencies - only include necessary modules -->
+        <!-- AWS SDK v2 dependencies used by S3A and its credential providers.
+             IAM, Glue, DynamoDB and Lake Formation clients are not needed for S3 access.
+             IAM role credentials are handled by auth and STS, not the IAM service client. -->
         <dependency>
             <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
             <artifactId>apache-client</artifactId>
@@ -132,11 +119,6 @@
             <artifactId>http-auth-aws-crt</artifactId>
             <version>${fs.s3.awssdk.version}</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
-            <artifactId>iam</artifactId>
-            <version>${fs.s3.awssdk.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
             <artifactId>sso</artifactId>
@@ -152,26 +134,11 @@
             <artifactId>kms</artifactId>
             <version>${fs.s3.awssdk.version}</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
-            <artifactId>glue</artifactId>
-            <version>${fs.s3.awssdk.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
             <artifactId>sts</artifactId>
             <version>${fs.s3.awssdk.version}</version>
         </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
-            <artifactId>dynamodb</artifactId>
-            <version>${fs.s3.awssdk.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
-            <artifactId>lakeformation</artifactId>
-            <version>${fs.s3.awssdk.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>software.amazon.awssdk</groupId>
             <artifactId>s3-transfer-manager</artifactId>
@@ -187,6 +154,14 @@
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
 
+        <!-- The MinIO fixture uses the SDK v1 S3 client. -->
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
+            <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-s3</artifactId>
+            <version>${fs.s3.aws.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+
         <dependency>
             <groupId>org.apache.paimon</groupId>
             <artifactId>paimon-common</artifactId>
@@ -309,15 +284,6 @@
                                         <exclude>META-INF/LICENSE.txt</exclude>
                                     </excludes>
                                 </filter>
-                                <filter>
-                                    <artifact>com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-s3</artifact>
-                                    <!-- Make sure we are using the overridden XmlResponsesSaxParser.
-                                        Filter must be removed as soon as XmlResponsesSaxParser of this module is
-                                        dropped, for example when discontinuing support for Java 8. -->
-                                    <excludes>
-                                        <exclude>com/amazonaws/services/s3/model/transform/XmlResponsesSaxParser**</exclude>
-                                    </excludes>
-                                </filter>
                             </filters>
                         </configuration>
                     </execution>
diff --git a/paimon-filesystems/paimon-s3-impl/src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE b/paimon-filesystems/paimon-s3-impl/src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE
index 93355a0576c0..657a61b2fe30 100644
--- a/paimon-filesystems/paimon-s3-impl/src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE
+++ b/paimon-filesystems/paimon-s3-impl/src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE
@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@ The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).
 This project bundles the following dependencies under the Apache Software License 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt)
 
 - com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-core:1.12.319
-- com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-dynamodb:1.12.319
-- com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-kms:1.12.319
-- com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-s3:1.12.319
 - com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-sts:1.12.319
 - com.amazonaws:jmespath-java:1.12.319
 - com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat:jackson-dataformat-cbor:2.12.6
diff --git a/paimon-filesystems/paimon-s3-impl/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/s3/model/transform/XmlResponsesSaxParser.java b/paimon-filesystems/paimon-s3-impl/src/test/java/com/amazonaws/services/s3/model/transform/XmlResponsesSaxParser.java
similarity index 99%
rename from paimon-filesystems/paimon-s3-impl/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/s3/model/transform/XmlResponsesSaxParser.java
rename to paimon-filesystems/paimon-s3-impl/src/test/java/com/amazonaws/services/s3/model/transform/XmlResponsesSaxParser.java
index eb1e3f21ddd6..0748e3d71fd5 100644
--- a/paimon-filesystems/paimon-s3-impl/src/main/java/com/amazonaws/services/s3/model/transform/XmlResponsesSaxParser.java
+++ b/paimon-filesystems/paimon-s3-impl/src/test/java/com/amazonaws/services/s3/model/transform/XmlResponsesSaxParser.java
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
 //  This class is copied from aws-java-sdk-s3 (Apache License 2.0)
 //  in order to replaced {@code XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader} by
 //  {@code SAX_PARSER_FACTORY.newSAXParser().getXMLReader()} to
-//  avoid JDK-8015099.
+//  avoid JDK-8015099 when the MinIO test fixture uses the SDK v1 client.
 //
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------