diff --git a/pywb/utils/loaders.py b/pywb/utils/loaders.py
index b5b39568..3e4bdd52 100644
--- a/pywb/utils/loaders.py
+++ b/pywb/utils/loaders.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import requests
 import urlparse
 import time
 import pkg_resources
-from io import open
+from io import open, BytesIO
 
 
 #=================================================================
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ def is_http(filename):
     return filename.startswith(('http://', 'https://'))
 
 
+#=================================================================
+def is_s3(filename):
+    return filename.startswith('s3://')
+
+
 #=================================================================
 def to_file_url(filename):
     """ Convert a filename to a file:// url
@@ -144,6 +149,7 @@ class BlockLoader(object):
     def __init__(self, cookie_maker=None):
         self.cookie_maker = cookie_maker
         self.session = None
+        self.s3conn = None
 
     def load(self, url, offset=0, length=-1):
         """
@@ -151,6 +157,8 @@ class BlockLoader(object):
         """
         if is_http(url):
             return self.load_http(url, offset, length)
+        elif is_s3(url):
+            return self.load_s3(url, offset, length)
         else:
             return self.load_file_or_resource(url, offset, length)
 
@@ -191,18 +199,21 @@ class BlockLoader(object):
         else:
             return afile
 
-    def load_http(self, url, offset, length):
-        """
-        Load a file-like reader over http using range requests
-        and an optional cookie created via a cookie_maker
-        """
+    @staticmethod
+    def _make_range_header(offset, length):
         if length > 0:
             range_header = 'bytes={0}-{1}'.format(offset, offset + length - 1)
         else:
             range_header = 'bytes={0}-'.format(offset)
 
-        headers = {}
-        headers['Range'] = range_header
+        return range_header
+
+    def load_http(self, url, offset, length):
+        """
+        Load a file-like reader over http using range requests
+        and an optional cookie created via a cookie_maker
+        """
+        headers = {'Range': self._make_range_header(offset, length)}
 
         if self.cookie_maker:
             if isinstance(self.cookie_maker, basestring):
@@ -215,8 +226,32 @@ class BlockLoader(object):
 
         r = self.session.get(url, headers=headers, stream=True)
         return r.raw
-        #request = urllib2.Request(url, headers=headers)
-        #return urllib2.urlopen(request)
+
+    def load_s3(self, url, offset, length):
+        try:
+            import boto
+        except ImportError:
+            raise IOError('To load from s3 paths, ' +
+                          'you must install boto: pip install boto')
+
+        if not self.s3conn:
+            try:
+                self.s3conn = boto.connect_s3()
+            except Exception:
+                self.s3conn = boto.connect_s3(anon=True)
+
+        parts = urlparse.urlsplit(url)
+
+        bucket = self.s3conn.get_bucket(parts.netloc)
+
+        headers = {'Range': self._make_range_header(offset, length)}
+
+        key = bucket.get_key(parts.path)
+
+        result = key.get_contents_as_string(headers=headers)
+        key.close()
+
+        return BytesIO(result)
 
 
 #=================================================================
diff --git a/pywb/utils/test/test_loaders.py b/pywb/utils/test/test_loaders.py
index cb0071b9..cca16cf8 100644
--- a/pywb/utils/test/test_loaders.py
+++ b/pywb/utils/test/test_loaders.py
@@ -106,15 +106,20 @@ True
 #=================================================================
 import re
 import os
+import pytest
+
 from io import BytesIO
 from pywb.utils.loaders import BlockLoader, HMACCookieMaker, to_file_url
 from pywb.utils.loaders import LimitReader, extract_client_cookie, extract_post_query
 from pywb.utils.loaders import read_last_line
 
+from pywb.utils.bufferedreaders import DecompressingBufferedReader
+
 from pywb import get_test_dir
 
 test_cdx_dir = get_test_dir() + 'cdx/'
 
+
 def read_multiple(reader, inc_reads):
     result = None
     for x in inc_reads:
@@ -127,6 +132,19 @@ def seek_read_full(seekable_reader, offset):
     seekable_reader.readline() #skip
     return seekable_reader.readline()
 
+def test_s3_read_1():
+    pytest.importorskip('boto')
+
+    res = BlockLoader().load('s3://aws-publicdatasets/common-crawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936462700.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074102-00159-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz',
+                             offset=53235662,
+                             length=2526)
+
+    buff = res.read()
+    assert len(buff) == 2526
+
+    reader = DecompressingBufferedReader(BytesIO(buff))
+    assert reader.readline() == 'WARC/1.0\r\n'
+    assert reader.readline() == 'WARC-Type: response\r\n'
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     import doctest