# Prerequisites for establishing connections to Amazon Keyspaces with the Spark Cassandra Connector
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Before you connect to Amazon Keyspaces with the Spark Cassandra Connector, you need to make sure that you've installed the following. The compatibility of Amazon Keyspaces with the Spark Cassandra Connector has been tested with the following recommended versions:
+ Java version 8
+ Scala 2.12
+ Spark 3.4
+ Cassandra Connector 2.5 and higher
+ Cassandra driver 4.12

1. To install Scala, follow the instructions at [https://www.scala-lang.org/download/scala2.html](https://www.scala-lang.org/download/scala2.html).

1. To install Spark 3.4.1, follow this example.

   ```
   curl -o spark-3.4.1-bin-hadoop3.tgz -k https://dlcdn.apache.org/spark/spark-3.4.1/spark-3.4.1-bin-hadoop3.tgz
   
   # now to untar
   tar -zxvf spark-3.4.1-bin-hadoop3.tgz
   
   # set this variable.
   export SPARK_HOME=$PWD/spark-3.4.1-bin-hadoop3
   ```
   ```