This document summarizes an Alluxio office hour on accelerating Hive with Alluxio on AWS S3. It discusses why S3 is popular but has performance limitations for analytics. Alluxio provides data orchestration to add caching and improve performance. The office hour demonstrated creating an EMR cluster with Alluxio using bootstrap actions, querying and writing Hive tables located in Alluxio on S3, and Alluxio's architecture. Upcoming Alluxio 2.1 features including a Presto connector were also mentioned.