diff --git a/config/settings.py b/config/settings.py
index c830041b..c46debcd 100755
--- a/config/settings.py
+++ b/config/settings.py
@@ -354,6 +354,12 @@ if not LOCAL_DEVELOPMENT:
     DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = "core.storages.MediaStorage"
     MEDIA_URL = f"{AWS_S3_ENDPOINT_URL}/{MEDIA_BUCKET_NAME}/"
 
+AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = env("AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID", default="changeme")
+AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = env("AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY", default="changeme")
+BUCKET_NAME = env("BUCKET_NAME", default="changeme")
+AWS_S3_ENDPOINT_URL = "s3.amazonaws.com"
+DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE = "storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage"
+
 # Markdown content
 BASE_CONTENT = env("BOOST_CONTENT_DIRECTORY", "/website")
 
diff --git a/core/boostrenderer.py b/core/boostrenderer.py
index dd164c08..49206915 100644
--- a/core/boostrenderer.py
+++ b/core/boostrenderer.py
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+import boto3
 import re
 
+from django.conf import settings
+
 from mistletoe import HTMLRenderer
 from mistletoe.span_token import SpanToken
 from pygments import highlight
@@ -8,6 +11,35 @@ from pygments.lexers import get_lexer_by_name as get_lexer, guess_lexer
 from pygments.formatters.html import HtmlFormatter
 
 
+def get_content_from_s3(key=None, bucket_name=None):
+    """Get content from S3
+
+    Sample key:
+    'archives/boost_1_81_0/README.md'
+
+    Returns the decoded file contents if able
+
+    FIXME: This is a temporary solution to get the content from S3
+    and does not handle errors or anything unexpected with grace.
+    """
+
+    if not key:
+        raise
+
+    if not bucket_name:
+        bucket_name = settings.BUCKET_NAME
+
+    client = boto3.client(
+        "s3",
+        aws_access_key_id=settings.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
+        aws_secret_access_key=settings.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
+        region_name="us-east-1",
+    )
+    response = client.get_object(Bucket=bucket_name, Key=key)
+    file_content = response["Body"].read().decode("utf-8")
+    return file_content
+
+
 class Youtube(SpanToken):
     """
     Span token for Youtube shortcodes
diff --git a/env.template b/env.template
index 985eea19..cfa5aae0 100644
--- a/env.template
+++ b/env.template
@@ -15,3 +15,8 @@ DJANGO_DEBUG=1
 SECRET_KEY="top-secret"
 
 GITHUB_TOKEN="top-secret"
+
+AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="changeme"
+AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="changeme"
+BUCKET_NAME="stage.boost.org"
+
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index 1f469c13..aea15bf5 100755
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Pillow==9.4.0
 django-storages
 wheel==0.38.1
 cryptography==39.0.1
+boto3
 
 # Logging
 django-tracer
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ Faker
 model_bakery
 ipython
 responses
+minio
 
 # Packaging
 pip-tools==6.12.3
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index bc7867fc..797b8f5c 100755
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ billiard==3.6.4.0
 black==22.3
     # via -r ./requirements.in
 boto3==1.17.68
-    # via django-bakery
+    # via
+    #   -r ./requirements.in
+    #   django-bakery
 botocore==1.20.68
     # via
     #   boto3
@@ -39,7 +41,9 @@ bumpversion==0.6.0
 celery==5.2.2
     # via -r ./requirements.in
 certifi==2022.6.15
-    # via requests
+    # via
+    #   minio
+    #   requests
 cffi==1.15.1
     # via cryptography
 charset-normalizer==2.1.0
@@ -171,6 +175,8 @@ marshmallow==3.11.1
     # via environs
 matplotlib-inline==0.1.3
     # via ipython
+minio==7.1.14
+    # via -r ./requirements.in
 mistletoe==0.8.2
     # via -r ./requirements.in
 model-bakery==1.5.0
@@ -277,7 +283,6 @@ s3transfer==0.4.2
     # via boto3
 six==1.16.0
     # via
-    #   asttokens
     #   click-repl
     #   django-bakery
     #   django-rest-auth
@@ -297,7 +302,6 @@ tomli==2.0.1
     # via
     #   black
     #   build
-    #   pyproject-hooks
     #   pytest
 traitlets==5.2.1.post0
     # via
@@ -310,11 +314,11 @@ typing-extensions==4.5.0
 urllib3==1.26.4
     # via
     #   botocore
+    #   minio
     #   requests
     #   responses
 vine==5.0.0
     # via
-    #   amqp
     #   celery
     #   kombu
 wcwidth==0.2.5