first time trying to add table to HIVE metastore, AWS NotFound error

I have setup Hive MetaStore with the eventual goal of connecting it with TRINO so I can query my parquet files in S3.. and I am in the trino CLI now and can see my hive.<schema_name> ... and now want to create a simple table so I can query.. but getting an exception

trino:<MY_SCHEMA>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS hive.<MY_SCHEMA>.<MY_TABLE> (
              ->   column_one       VARCHAR,
              ->   column_two       VARCHAR,
              ->   column_three     VARCHAR,
              ->   column_four      DOUBLE,
              ->   column_five      VARCHAR,
              ->   column_six       VARCHAR,
              ->   query_start_time TIMESTAMP)
              -> WITH (
              ->   external_location = 's3a://<MY_S3_BUCKET_NAME>/dir_one/dir_two',
              ->   format = 'PARQUET'
              -> );
CREATE TABLE
Query 20220924_181001_00019_bvs42 failed: Got exception: java.io.FileNotFoundException PUT 0-byte object  on dir_one/dir_two: com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.AmazonS3Exception: Not Found (Service: Amazon S3; Status Code: 404; Error Code: 404 Not Found; Request ID: IDNUM123; S3 Extended Request ID: soMeLongID123=; Proxy: null), S3 Extended Request ID: soMeLongID123:404 Not Found

I indeed tested my AWS credentials manually.. I can indeed connect to the bucket and read the bucket.. I have files of type parquet contained within the bucket...

what should I check or .. what could I be doing wrong? Thanks

EDIT: adding my hive.properties

connector.name=hive-hadoop2
hive.metastore.uri=thrift://$HIVE_IP_ADDR:9083
hive.s3.path-style-access=true
hive.s3.endpoint=$AWS_S3_ENDPOINT
hive.s3.aws-access-key=$AWS_ACCESS_ID
hive.s3.aws-secret-key=$AWS_SECRET
hive.s3.ssl.enabled=false