diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 5609001a..3222af70 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1089,7 +1089,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "async-compression 0.4.3",
  "async-stream",
  "async_zip",
- "aws-sdk-s3",
  "backtrace",
  "bytes",
  "clap",
diff --git a/crates/esthri-cli/Cargo.toml b/crates/esthri-cli/Cargo.toml
index daf335fc..40c961c7 100644
--- a/crates/esthri-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/esthri-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -51,8 +51,6 @@ tokio = { version = "1.23.0", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "signal", "sync"] }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7.8", features = ["compat", "codec"] }
 warp = "0.3"
 
-aws-sdk-s3 = { workspace = true }
-
 [dev-dependencies]
 esthri = { path = "../esthri", default-features = false, features=["blocking"] }
 esthri-test = { path = "../esthri-test" }
diff --git a/crates/esthri-cli/src/cli_opts.rs b/crates/esthri-cli/src/cli_opts.rs
index 46b1d817..5e632cd5 100644
--- a/crates/esthri-cli/src/cli_opts.rs
+++ b/crates/esthri-cli/src/cli_opts.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-use std::path::PathBuf;
-
-use aws_sdk_s3::types::StorageClass as S3StorageClass;
 use clap::Args;
+use esthri::aws_sdk::StorageClass as S3StorageClass;
 use esthri::{opts::*, S3PathParam};
 use glob::Pattern;
+use std::path::PathBuf;
 
 // Esthri does this by default (and can currently only do this), exposing this
 // as an option just ensures that Esthri will still be able to handle the case
diff --git a/crates/esthri-cli/src/cli_utils.rs b/crates/esthri-cli/src/cli_utils.rs
index 5dad2801..0a272187 100644
--- a/crates/esthri-cli/src/cli_utils.rs
+++ b/crates/esthri-cli/src/cli_utils.rs
@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
-use std::{
-    env,
-    ffi::OsStr,
-    path::Path,
-    process::{Command, Stdio},
-};
-
 use anyhow::{bail, Result};
-use aws_sdk_s3::Client as S3Client;
 use clap::ArgMatches;
+use esthri::aws_sdk::Client as S3Client;
 use esthri::{AwsCredProvider, GlobFilter};
 use glob::Pattern;
 use log::*;
 use log_derive::logfn;
+use std::{
+    env,
+    ffi::OsStr,
+    path::Path,
+    process::{Command, Stdio},
+};
 
 // Environment variable that can be set to set the path to the aws tool that esthri falls back to
 const REAL_AWS_EXECUTABLE_ENV_NAME: &str = "ESTHRI_AWS_PATH";
diff --git a/crates/esthri-cli/src/http_server.rs b/crates/esthri-cli/src/http_server.rs
index a88c6836..5e0cf31e 100644
--- a/crates/esthri-cli/src/http_server.rs
+++ b/crates/esthri-cli/src/http_server.rs
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ use async_zip::{
     write::{EntryOptions, ZipFileWriter},
     Compression,
 };
-use aws_sdk_s3::Client as S3Client;
 use bytes::{Bytes, BytesMut};
+use esthri::aws_sdk::Client as S3Client;
 use futures::stream::{Stream, StreamExt, TryStreamExt};
 use hyper::header::{CONTENT_ENCODING, LOCATION};
 use log::*;
diff --git a/crates/esthri-cli/src/main.rs b/crates/esthri-cli/src/main.rs
index 94ff6ce0..b6855c6e 100644
--- a/crates/esthri-cli/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/esthri-cli/src/main.rs
@@ -19,14 +19,13 @@ mod cli_utils;
 
 use anyhow::Result;
 use clap::{CommandFactory, Parser, Subcommand};
-use glob::Pattern;
-use log::*;
-use tokio::runtime::Builder;
-
-use aws_sdk_s3::Client as S3Client;
 use cli_opts::*;
 use cli_utils::*;
+use esthri::aws_sdk::Client as S3Client;
 use esthri::{self, GlobFilter, PendingUpload};
+use glob::Pattern;
+use log::*;
+use tokio::runtime::Builder;
 
 #[derive(Debug, Parser)]
 #[clap(name = "esthri", about = "Simple S3 file transfer utility.", version)]
diff --git a/crates/esthri/src/aws_sdk.rs b/crates/esthri/src/aws_sdk.rs
index 92be1ff3..0332d6d6 100644
--- a/crates/esthri/src/aws_sdk.rs
+++ b/crates/esthri/src/aws_sdk.rs
@@ -17,8 +17,7 @@ use aws_sdk_s3::operation::create_multipart_upload::CreateMultipartUploadOutput;
 use aws_sdk_s3::operation::get_object::GetObjectOutput;
 use aws_sdk_s3::operation::head_object::{HeadObjectError, HeadObjectOutput};
 use aws_sdk_s3::primitives::ByteStream;
-use aws_sdk_s3::types::{CompletedMultipartUpload, CompletedPart, StorageClass};
-use aws_sdk_s3::Client;
+use aws_sdk_s3::types::{CompletedMultipartUpload, CompletedPart};
 use aws_smithy_types_convert::date_time::DateTimeExt;
 use bytes::Bytes;
 use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
@@ -26,6 +25,9 @@ use futures::Stream;
 
 use crate::{Error, Result};
 
+pub use aws_sdk_s3::types::StorageClass;
+pub use aws_sdk_s3::Client;
+
 /// The data returned from a head object request
 #[derive(Debug)]
 pub struct HeadObjectInfo {
diff --git a/crates/esthri/src/lib.rs b/crates/esthri/src/lib.rs
index 0ed09d33..1fc7093c 100644
--- a/crates/esthri/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/esthri/src/lib.rs
@@ -59,8 +59,7 @@ pub use presign::{
 };
 
 pub use aws_sdk::HeadObjectInfo;
-use aws_sdk_s3::Client;
-use aws_smithy_client::hyper_ext;
+pub use aws_smithy_client::hyper_ext;
 pub use types::{S3ListingItem, S3Object, S3PathParam};
 
 pub use esthri_internals::new_https_connector;