diff --git a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/Checkpoint.scala b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/Checkpoint.scala
index 65d4e933bf8e9..2780d5b6adbcf 100644
--- a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/Checkpoint.scala
+++ b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/Checkpoint.scala
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.fs.{FileSystem, Path}
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
 
 import org.apache.spark.{SparkException, SparkConf, Logging}
+import org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkHadoopUtil
 import org.apache.spark.io.CompressionCodec
 import org.apache.spark.util.{MetadataCleaner, Utils}
 import org.apache.spark.streaming.scheduler.JobGenerator
@@ -100,7 +101,7 @@ object Checkpoint extends Logging {
     }
 
     val path = new Path(checkpointDir)
-    val fs = fsOption.getOrElse(path.getFileSystem(new Configuration()))
+    val fs = fsOption.getOrElse(path.getFileSystem(SparkHadoopUtil.get.conf))
     if (fs.exists(path)) {
       val statuses = fs.listStatus(path)
       if (statuses != null) {
diff --git a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/StreamingContext.scala b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/StreamingContext.scala
index 92438f1b1fbf7..177e710ace54b 100644
--- a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/StreamingContext.scala
+++ b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/StreamingContext.scala
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.{InputFormat => NewInputFormat}
 
 import org.apache.spark._
 import org.apache.spark.annotation.{DeveloperApi, Experimental}
+import org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkHadoopUtil
 import org.apache.spark.input.FixedLengthBinaryInputFormat
 import org.apache.spark.rdd.{RDD, RDDOperationScope}
 import org.apache.spark.serializer.SerializationDebugger
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@ class StreamingContext private[streaming] (
    * Recreate a StreamingContext from a checkpoint file.
    * @param path Path to the directory that was specified as the checkpoint directory
    */
-  def this(path: String) = this(path, new Configuration)
+  def this(path: String) = this(path, SparkHadoopUtil.get.conf)
 
   /**
    * Recreate a StreamingContext from a checkpoint file using an existing SparkContext.
@@ -803,7 +804,7 @@ object StreamingContext extends Logging {
   def getActiveOrCreate(
       checkpointPath: String,
       creatingFunc: () => StreamingContext,
-      hadoopConf: Configuration = new Configuration(),
+      hadoopConf: Configuration = SparkHadoopUtil.get.conf,
       createOnError: Boolean = false
     ): StreamingContext = {
     ACTIVATION_LOCK.synchronized {
@@ -828,7 +829,7 @@ object StreamingContext extends Logging {
   def getOrCreate(
       checkpointPath: String,
       creatingFunc: () => StreamingContext,
-      hadoopConf: Configuration = new Configuration(),
+      hadoopConf: Configuration = SparkHadoopUtil.get.conf,
       createOnError: Boolean = false
     ): StreamingContext = {
     val checkpointOption = CheckpointReader.read(
diff --git a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaPairDStream.scala b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaPairDStream.scala
index 959ac9c177f81..26383e420101e 100644
--- a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaPairDStream.scala
+++ b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaPairDStream.scala
@@ -788,7 +788,7 @@ class JavaPairDStream[K, V](val dstream: DStream[(K, V)])(
       keyClass: Class[_],
       valueClass: Class[_],
       outputFormatClass: Class[F],
-      conf: Configuration = new Configuration) {
+      conf: Configuration = dstream.context.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration) {
     dstream.saveAsNewAPIHadoopFiles(prefix, suffix, keyClass, valueClass, outputFormatClass, conf)
   }
 
diff --git a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaStreamingContext.scala b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaStreamingContext.scala
index 40deb6d7ea79a..35cc3ce5cf468 100644
--- a/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaStreamingContext.scala
+++ b/streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/api/java/JavaStreamingContext.scala
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.annotation.Experimental
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.{JavaPairRDD, JavaRDD, JavaSparkContext}
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.{Function => JFunction, Function2 => JFunction2}
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.{Function0 => JFunction0}
+import org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkHadoopUtil
 import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
 import org.apache.spark.storage.StorageLevel
 import org.apache.spark.streaming._
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ class JavaStreamingContext(val ssc: StreamingContext) extends Closeable {
    * Recreate a JavaStreamingContext from a checkpoint file.
    * @param path Path to the directory that was specified as the checkpoint directory
    */
-  def this(path: String) = this(new StreamingContext(path, new Configuration))
+  def this(path: String) = this(new StreamingContext(path, SparkHadoopUtil.get.conf))
 
   /**
    * Re-creates a JavaStreamingContext from a checkpoint file.