diff --git a/assembly/README b/assembly/README
deleted file mode 100644
index 10c8254ae153e..0000000000000
--- a/assembly/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-This is an assembly module for Spark project.
-
-It creates a single tar.gz file that includes all needed dependency of the project
-except for org.apache.hadoop.* jars that are supposed to be available from the
-deployed Hadoop cluster.
-
-This module is off by default. To activate it specify the profile in the command line
-  -Pbigtop-dist
-
-If you need to build an assembly for a different version of Hadoop the
-hadoop-version system property needs to be set as in this example:
-  -Dhadoop.version=3.4.1
diff --git a/assembly/pom.xml b/assembly/pom.xml
index 525f3b2569bb3..e7bf0ccf840dc 100644
--- a/assembly/pom.xml
+++ b/assembly/pom.xml
@@ -277,34 +277,6 @@
         </dependency>
       </dependencies>
     </profile>
-    <profile>
-      <id>bigtop-dist</id>
-      <!-- This profile uses the assembly plugin to create a special "dist" package for BigTop
-           that contains Spark but not the Hadoop JARs it depends on. -->
-      <build>
-        <plugins>
-          <plugin>
-            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
-            <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
-            <version>3.1.0</version>
-            <executions>
-              <execution>
-                <id>dist</id>
-                <phase>package</phase>
-                <goals>
-                  <goal>single</goal>
-                </goals>
-                <configuration>
-                  <descriptors>
-                    <descriptor>src/main/assembly/assembly.xml</descriptor>
-                  </descriptors>
-                </configuration>
-              </execution>
-            </executions>
-          </plugin>
-        </plugins>
-      </build>
-    </profile>
 
     <!-- Profiles that disable inclusion of certain dependencies. -->
     <profile>
diff --git a/assembly/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml b/assembly/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 009d4b92f406c..0000000000000
--- a/assembly/src/main/assembly/assembly.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-<!--
-  ~ 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.
-  -->
-<assembly>
-  <id>dist</id>
-  <formats>
-    <format>tar.gz</format>
-    <format>dir</format>
-  </formats>
-  <includeBaseDirectory>false</includeBaseDirectory>
-
-  <fileSets>
-    <fileSet>
-      <includes>
-        <include>README</include>
-      </includes>
-    </fileSet>
-    <fileSet>
-      <directory>
-        ${project.parent.basedir}/core/src/main/resources/org/apache/spark/ui/static/
-      </directory>
-      <outputDirectory>ui-resources/org/apache/spark/ui/static</outputDirectory>
-      <includes>
-        <include>**/*</include>
-      </includes>
-    </fileSet>
-    <fileSet>
-      <directory>
-        ${project.parent.basedir}/sbin/
-      </directory>
-      <outputDirectory>sbin</outputDirectory>
-      <includes>
-        <include>**/*</include>
-      </includes>
-    </fileSet>
-    <fileSet>
-      <directory>
-        ${project.parent.basedir}/bin/
-      </directory>
-      <outputDirectory>bin</outputDirectory>
-      <includes>
-        <include>**/*</include>
-      </includes>
-    </fileSet>
-    <fileSet>
-      <directory>
-        ${project.parent.basedir}/assembly/target/${spark.jar.dir}
-      </directory>
-      <outputDirectory></outputDirectory>
-      <includes>
-        <include>${spark.jar.basename}</include>
-      </includes>
-    </fileSet>
-  </fileSets>
-
-  <dependencySets>
-    <dependencySet>
-      <includes>
-        <include>org.apache.spark:*:jar</include>
-      </includes>
-      <excludes>
-        <exclude>org.apache.spark:spark-assembly:jar</exclude>
-      </excludes>
-    </dependencySet>
-    <dependencySet>
-      <outputDirectory>lib</outputDirectory>
-      <useTransitiveDependencies>true</useTransitiveDependencies>
-      <unpack>false</unpack>
-      <scope>runtime</scope>
-      <useProjectArtifact>false</useProjectArtifact>
-      <excludes>
-        <exclude>org.apache.hadoop:*:jar</exclude>
-        <exclude>org.apache.spark:*:jar</exclude>
-        <exclude>org.apache.zookeeper:*:jar</exclude>
-        <exclude>org.apache.avro:*:jar</exclude>
-      </excludes>
-    </dependencySet>
-  </dependencySets>
-
-</assembly>