diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/pom.xml b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/pom.xml
index 7b02c85215..5eb02320ca 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/pom.xml
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@
       <artifactId>jersey-hk2</artifactId>
       <version>2.27</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat</groupId>
+      <artifactId>jackson-dataformat-xml</artifactId>
+      <version>2.9.0</version>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>javax.enterprise</groupId>
       <artifactId>cdi-api</artifactId>
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/EndpointBase.java b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/EndpointBase.java
index bfbeeec227..f20d18278f 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/EndpointBase.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/EndpointBase.java
@@ -26,12 +26,20 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.client.OzoneVolume;
 
 import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
+import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.s3.exception.OS3Exception;
+import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.s3.exception.S3ErrorTable;
+import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.s3.exception.S3ErrorTable.Resource;
+import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.web.utils.OzoneUtils;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 /**
  * Basic helpers for all the REST endpoints.
  */
 public class EndpointBase {
 
+  private static final Logger LOG =
+      LoggerFactory.getLogger(EndpointBase.class);
   @Inject
   private OzoneClient client;
 
@@ -41,13 +49,16 @@ protected OzoneBucket getBucket(String volumeName, String bucketName)
   }
 
   protected OzoneBucket getBucket(OzoneVolume volume, String bucketName)
-      throws IOException {
-    OzoneBucket bucket = null;
+      throws OS3Exception, IOException {
+    OzoneBucket bucket;
     try {
       bucket = volume.getBucket(bucketName);
-    } catch (Exception ex) {
+    } catch (IOException ex) {
+      LOG.error("Error occurred is {}", ex);
       if (ex.getMessage().contains("NOT_FOUND")) {
-        throw new NotFoundException("Bucket" + bucketName + " is not found");
+        OS3Exception oex = S3ErrorTable.newError(S3ErrorTable.NO_SUCH_BUCKET,
+            OzoneUtils.getRequestID(), Resource.BUCKET);
+        throw oex;
       } else {
         throw ex;
       }
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/OS3Exception.java b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/OS3Exception.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..722a4a1bd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/OS3Exception.java
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hadoop.ozone.s3.exception;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.SerializationFeature;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.module.jaxb.JaxbAnnotationModule;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;
+import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;
+import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
+import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlTransient;
+import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
+
+
+/**
+ * This class represents exceptions raised from Ozone S3 service.
+ *
+ * Ref:https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/ErrorResponses.html
+ */
+@XmlRootElement(name = "Error")
+@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.NONE)
+public class OS3Exception extends  Exception {
+  private static final Logger LOG =
+      LoggerFactory.getLogger(OS3Exception.class);
+  private static ObjectMapper mapper;
+
+  static {
+    mapper = new XmlMapper();
+    mapper.registerModule(new JaxbAnnotationModule());
+    mapper.enable(SerializationFeature.INDENT_OUTPUT);
+  }
+  @XmlElement(name = "Code")
+  private String code;
+
+  @XmlElement(name = "Message")
+  private String errorMessage;
+
+  @XmlElement(name = "Resource")
+  private String resource;
+
+  @XmlElement(name = "RequestId")
+  private String requestId;
+
+  @XmlTransient
+  private int httpCode;
+
+  public OS3Exception() {
+    //Added for JaxB.
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Create an object OS3Exception.
+   * @param codeVal
+   * @param messageVal
+   * @param requestIdVal
+   * @param resourceVal
+   */
+  public OS3Exception(String codeVal, String messageVal, String requestIdVal,
+                      String resourceVal) {
+    this.code = codeVal;
+    this.errorMessage = messageVal;
+    this.requestId = requestIdVal;
+    this.resource = resourceVal;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Create an object OS3Exception.
+   * @param codeVal
+   * @param messageVal
+   * @param httpCode
+   */
+  public OS3Exception(String codeVal, String messageVal, int httpCode) {
+    this.code = codeVal;
+    this.errorMessage = messageVal;
+    this.httpCode = httpCode;
+  }
+
+  public String getCode() {
+    return code;
+  }
+
+  public void setCode(String code) {
+    this.code = code;
+  }
+
+  public String getErrorMessage() {
+    return errorMessage;
+  }
+
+  public void setErrorMessage(String errorMessage) {
+    this.errorMessage = errorMessage;
+  }
+
+  public String getRequestId() {
+    return requestId;
+  }
+
+  public void setRequestId(String requestId) {
+    this.requestId = requestId;
+  }
+
+  public String getResource() {
+    return resource;
+  }
+
+  public void setResource(String resource) {
+    this.resource = resource;
+  }
+
+  public int getHttpCode() {
+    return httpCode;
+  }
+
+  public void setHttpCode(int httpCode) {
+    this.httpCode = httpCode;
+  }
+
+  public String toXml() {
+    try {
+      String val = mapper.writeValueAsString(this);
+      LOG.debug("toXml val is {}", val);
+      String xmlLine = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n"
+          + val;
+      return xmlLine;
+    } catch (Exception ex) {
+      LOG.error("Exception occurred {}", ex);
+    }
+
+    //When we get exception log it, and return exception as xml from actual
+    // exception data. So, falling back to construct from exception.
+    String formatString = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>" +
+        "<Error>" +
+        "<Code>%s</Code>" +
+        "<Message>%s</Message>" +
+        "<Resource>%s</Resource>" +
+        "<RequestId>%s</RequestId>" +
+        "</Error>";
+    return String.format(formatString, this.getCode(),
+        this.getErrorMessage(), this.getResource(),
+        this.getRequestId());
+  }
+}
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/OS3ExceptionMapper.java b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/OS3ExceptionMapper.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3f39d722d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/OS3ExceptionMapper.java
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hadoop.ozone.s3.exception;
+
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
+import javax.ws.rs.ext.ExceptionMapper;
+import javax.ws.rs.ext.Provider;
+
+/**
+ *  Class the represents various errors returned by the
+ *  Ozone S3 service.
+ */
+@Provider
+public class OS3ExceptionMapper implements ExceptionMapper<OS3Exception> {
+  private static final Logger LOG =
+      LoggerFactory.getLogger(OS3ExceptionMapper.class);
+  @Override
+  public Response toResponse(OS3Exception exception) {
+    LOG.debug("Returning exception. ex: {}", exception.toString());
+    return Response.status(exception.getHttpCode())
+        .entity(exception.toXml()).build();
+  }
+}
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/S3ErrorTable.java b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/S3ErrorTable.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b504bf4ea8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/S3ErrorTable.java
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.hadoop.ozone.s3.exception;
+
+
+import static java.net.HttpURLConnection.HTTP_BAD_REQUEST;
+import static java.net.HttpURLConnection.HTTP_NOT_FOUND;
+
+/**
+ * This class represents errors from Ozone S3 service.
+ * This class needs to be updated to add new errors when required.
+ */
+public final class S3ErrorTable {
+
+  private S3ErrorTable() {
+    //No one should construct this object.
+  }
+
+  public static final OS3Exception INVALID_URI = new OS3Exception("InvalidURI",
+      "Couldn't parse the specified URI.", HTTP_BAD_REQUEST);
+
+  public static final OS3Exception NO_SUCH_BUCKET = new OS3Exception(
+      "NoSuchBucket", "The specified bucket does not exist", HTTP_NOT_FOUND);
+
+
+  /**
+   * Create a new instance of Error.
+   * @param e Error Template
+   * @param requestID
+   * @param resource Resource associated with this exception
+   * @return creates a new instance of error based on the template
+   */
+  public static OS3Exception newError(OS3Exception e, String requestID,
+                                         Resource resource){
+    OS3Exception err =  new OS3Exception(e.getCode(), e.getErrorMessage(),
+        e.getHttpCode());
+    err.setRequestId(requestID);
+    err.setResource(resource.getResource());
+    return err;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Resources, which can be defined in OS3Exception.
+   */
+  public enum Resource {
+    BUCKET("Bucket");
+
+    private final String resource;
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs resource.
+     * @param value
+     */
+    Resource(String value) {
+      this.resource = value;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Get resource.
+     * @return string
+     */
+    public String getResource() {
+      return  this.resource;
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/package-info.java b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/package-info.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d295ae885a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/package-info.java
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * This package contains Ozone S3 exceptions.
+ */
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/object/ListObject.java b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/object/ListObject.java
index 73f1343791..a7bd7ad6f3 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/object/ListObject.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/object/ListObject.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.s3.commontypes.KeyMetadata;
 
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.s3.exception.OS3Exception;
 
 /**
  * List Object Rest endpoint.
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ public ListObjectResponse get(
       @QueryParam("marker") String marker,
       @DefaultValue("1000") @QueryParam("max-keys") int maxKeys,
       @QueryParam("prefix") String prefix,
-      @Context HttpHeaders hh) throws IOException {
+      @Context HttpHeaders hh) throws OS3Exception, IOException {
 
     if (delimiter == null) {
       delimiter = "/";
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/bucket/TestGetBucket.java b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/bucket/TestGetBucket.java
index f5a6f7e2df..123dd7946d 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/bucket/TestGetBucket.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/bucket/TestGetBucket.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.client.OzoneBucket;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.client.OzoneClient;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.client.OzoneClientStub;
+import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.s3.exception.OS3Exception;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.s3.object.ListObject;
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.s3.object.ListObjectResponse;
 
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@
 public class TestGetBucket {
 
   @Test
-  public void listRoot() throws IOException {
+  public void listRoot() throws OS3Exception, IOException {
 
     ListObject getBucket = new ListObject();
 
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ public void listRoot() throws IOException {
   }
 
   @Test
-  public void listDir() throws IOException {
+  public void listDir() throws OS3Exception, IOException {
 
     ListObject getBucket = new ListObject();
 
@@ -78,7 +79,7 @@ public void listDir() throws IOException {
   }
 
   @Test
-  public void listSubDir() throws IOException {
+  public void listSubDir() throws OS3Exception, IOException {
 
     ListObject getBucket = new ListObject();
     OzoneClient ozoneClient =
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/TestOS3Exception.java b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/TestOS3Exception.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..72e2949247
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/TestOS3Exception.java
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hadoop.ozone.s3.exception;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.web.utils.OzoneUtils;
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+/**
+ * This class tests OS3Exception class.
+ */
+public class TestOS3Exception {
+
+  @Test
+  public void testOS3Exception() {
+    OS3Exception ex = new OS3Exception("AccessDenied", "Access Denied",
+        403);
+    String requestId = OzoneUtils.getRequestID();
+    ex = S3ErrorTable.newError(ex, requestId, S3ErrorTable.Resource.BUCKET);
+    String val = ex.toXml();
+    String formatString = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n" +
+        "<Error>\n" +
+        "  <Code>%s</Code>\n" +
+        "  <Message>%s</Message>\n" +
+        "  <Resource>%s</Resource>\n" +
+        "  <RequestId>%s</RequestId>\n" +
+        "</Error>\n";
+    String expected = String.format(formatString, ex.getCode(),
+        ex.getErrorMessage(), ex.getResource(),
+        ex.getRequestId());
+    Assert.assertEquals(expected, val);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/package-info.java b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/package-info.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..31effe4fba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/exception/package-info.java
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * This package tests OS3Exception.
+ */
+package org.apache.hadoop.ozone.s3.exception;
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