diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/read/S3CachingInputStream.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/read/S3CachingInputStream.java
index a19d0121e42f5..7ba51f37345a9 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/read/S3CachingInputStream.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/read/S3CachingInputStream.java
@@ -75,7 +75,6 @@ public S3CachingInputStream(
     LOG.debug("Created caching input stream for {} (size = {})", this.getName(), fileSize);
   }
 
-  @Override
   protected void initialize() {
     super.initialize();
     int bufferPoolSize = this.numBlocksToPrefetch + 1;