diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b6dd4529..decc5481 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -109,7 +109,12 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/ma
   			<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
   			<version>3.1</version>        
         </dependency>
-        
+
+       <dependency>
+       	<groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
+       	<artifactId>aws-java-sdk</artifactId>
+       	<version>1.3.22</version>
+       </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <repositories>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/chombo/util/Utility.java b/src/main/java/org/chombo/util/Utility.java
index 6cc95b60..781b694b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/chombo/util/Utility.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/chombo/util/Utility.java
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Properties;
+import java.util.regex.Matcher;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
@@ -40,6 +42,12 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
 import org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes.CharTermAttribute;
 
+import com.amazonaws.auth.PropertiesCredentials;
+import com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3;
+import com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3Client;
+import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.GetObjectRequest;
+import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.S3Object;
+
 /**
  * Generic Utility
  * @author pranab
@@ -50,9 +58,20 @@ public class Utility {
 	private static final String FS_DEF_CONFIG_DIR = "/var/mawazo/";
 	private static final String HDFS_DEF_CONFIG_DIR = "/var/mawazo/";
 	private static final String HDFS_PREFIX = "hdfs:";
+	private static final String S3_PREFIX = "s3n:";
 	private static final int HDFS_PREFIX_LEN = 5;
 	private static final String PROP_FILE_EXT = ".properties";
 	
+	private static Pattern s3pattern = Pattern.compile("s3n:/+([^/]+)/+(.*)");
+    static AmazonS3 s3 = null;
+	static {
+		try {	
+			s3 = new AmazonS3Client(new PropertiesCredentials(Utility.class.getResourceAsStream("AwsCredentials.properties")));
+		}
+		catch (Exception e) {
+			e.printStackTrace();
+		}
+	}
     /**
      * @param conf
      * @throws Exception
@@ -60,9 +79,20 @@ public class Utility {
     public static void setConfiguration(Configuration conf) throws Exception{
         String confFilePath = conf.get("conf.path");
         if (null != confFilePath){
-            FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(confFilePath);
+        	InputStream is = null;
+        	if (confFilePath.startsWith(S3_PREFIX)) { 
+        		Matcher matcher = s3pattern.matcher(confFilePath);
+        		matcher.matches();
+        		String bucket = matcher.group(1);
+        		String key = matcher.group(2);
+        		S3Object object = s3.getObject(new GetObjectRequest(bucket, key));
+                is = object.getObjectContent();
+        	}
+        	else {
+        		is = new FileInputStream(confFilePath);
+        	}
             Properties configProps = new Properties();
-            configProps.load(fis);
+            configProps.load(is);
 
             for (Object key : configProps.keySet()){
                 String keySt = key.toString();
@@ -329,5 +359,4 @@ public static String[] filterOutFields(String[] items , int[] filteredFields) {
     	}
     	return extractedFields;
     }
-    
 }