diff --git a/sahara_tests/scenario/custom_checks/check_kafka.py b/sahara_tests/scenario/custom_checks/check_kafka.py
index 80f66b64..d8c922fa 100644
--- a/sahara_tests/scenario/custom_checks/check_kafka.py
+++ b/sahara_tests/scenario/custom_checks/check_kafka.py
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ class CustomCheckKafka(object):
     def _prepare_spark_kafka_job_running(self, shs):
         ip = self._get_node_ip(shs)
         utils_url = (
-            "http://central.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/spark"
+            "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/spark"
             "/spark-streaming-kafka-assembly_2.10/1.4.1"
             "/spark-streaming-kafka-assembly_2.10-1.4.1.jar")
         # try to search spark-kafka assembly utils
diff --git a/sahara_tests/scenario/defaults/edp-examples/edp-spark/README.rst b/sahara_tests/scenario/defaults/edp-examples/edp-spark/README.rst
index 0f222828..0cbf1d47 100644
--- a/sahara_tests/scenario/defaults/edp-examples/edp-spark/README.rst
+++ b/sahara_tests/scenario/defaults/edp-examples/edp-spark/README.rst
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Launching spark-kafka-example
    and ``path`` with your own values.
 2. Download the Spark Streaming utils to the node with your
    ``Spark History Server`` from this URL:
-   ``http://central.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/spark/spark-streaming-kafka-assembly_2.10/1.4.1/spark-streaming-kafka-assembly_2.10-1.4.1.jar``.
+   ``https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/spark/spark-streaming-kafka-assembly_2.10/1.4.1/spark-streaming-kafka-assembly_2.10-1.4.1.jar``.
    Now you are ready to launch your job from sahara UI.
 3. Create a job binary that points to ``spark-kafka-example.py``.
    Also you need to create a job that uses this job binary as a main binary.