diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/SyncableDataOutputStream.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/SyncableDataOutputStream.java
index dcfff2fbe3..14ddb02fc4 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/SyncableDataOutputStream.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/SyncableDataOutputStream.java
@@ -22,9 +22,12 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.StreamCapabilities;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Syncable;
-import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;
 
 /**
  * Support the Syncable interface on top of a DataOutputStream.
@@ -35,6 +38,8 @@
 public class SyncableDataOutputStream extends DataOutputStream
     implements Syncable, StreamCapabilities {
 
+  private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SyncableDataOutputStream.class);
+
   public SyncableDataOutputStream(OutputStream out) {
     super(out);
   }
@@ -70,4 +75,34 @@ public void hsync() throws IOException {
       ((Syncable) out).hsync();
     }
   }
+
+  @Override
+  public void close() throws IOException {
+    IOException ioeFromFlush = null;
+    try {
+      flush();
+    } catch (IOException e) {
+      ioeFromFlush = e;
+      throw e;
+    } finally {
+      try {
+        this.out.close();
+      } catch (IOException e) {
+        // If there was an Exception during flush(), the Azure SDK will throw back the
+        // same when we call close on the same stream. When try and finally both throw
+        // Exception, Java will use Throwable#addSuppressed for one of the Exception so
+        // that the caller will get one exception back. When within this, if both
+        // Exceptions are equal, it will throw back IllegalStateException. This makes us
+        // to throw back a non IOE. The below special handling is to avoid this.
+        if (ioeFromFlush == e) {
+          // Do nothing..
+          // The close() call gave back the same IOE which flush() gave. Just swallow it
+          LOG.debug("flush() and close() throwing back same Exception. Just swallowing the latter", e);
+        } else {
+          // Let Java handle 2 different Exceptions been thrown from try and finally.
+          throw e;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/TestSyncableDataOutputStream.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/TestSyncableDataOutputStream.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c8c6d93f49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azure/TestSyncableDataOutputStream.java
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/*
+ * 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.fs.azure;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.test.LambdaTestUtils;
+
+public class TestSyncableDataOutputStream {
+
+  @Test
+  public void testCloseWhenFlushThrowingIOException() throws Exception {
+    MockOutputStream out = new MockOutputStream();
+    SyncableDataOutputStream sdos = new SyncableDataOutputStream(out);
+    out.flushThrowIOE = true;
+    LambdaTestUtils.intercept(IOException.class, "An IOE from flush", () -> sdos.close());
+    MockOutputStream out2 = new MockOutputStream();
+    out2.flushThrowIOE = true;
+    LambdaTestUtils.intercept(IOException.class, "An IOE from flush", () -> {
+      try (SyncableDataOutputStream sdos2 = new SyncableDataOutputStream(out2)) {
+      }
+    });
+  }
+
+  private static class MockOutputStream extends OutputStream {
+
+    private boolean flushThrowIOE = false;
+    private IOException lastException = null;
+
+    @Override
+    public void write(int arg0) throws IOException {
+
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void flush() throws IOException {
+      if (this.flushThrowIOE) {
+        this.lastException = new IOException("An IOE from flush");
+        throw this.lastException;
+      }
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void close() throws IOException {
+      if (this.lastException != null) {
+        throw this.lastException;
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}