diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 822e875..25661aa 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ FROM scratch AS final
 LABEL maintainer="Andrea Spacca <andrea.spacca@gmail.com>"
 
 COPY --from=build  /go/bin/transfersh /go/bin/transfersh
+COPY --from=build /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["/go/bin/transfersh", "--listener", ":8080"]
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 89509ca..dc151ed 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ provider | which storage provider to use | (s3, grdrive or local) |
 aws-access-key | aws access key | | AWS_ACCESS_KEY
 aws-secret-key | aws access key | | AWS_SECRET_KEY
 bucket | aws bucket | | BUCKET
+s3-region | region of the s3 bucket | eu-west-1 | S3_REGION
 s3-no-multipart | disables s3 multipart upload | false | |
 basedir | path storage for local/gdrive provider| |
 gdrive-client-json-filepath | path to oauth client json config for gdrive provider| |
@@ -202,6 +203,21 @@ For easy deployment, we've created a Docker container.
 docker run --publish 8080:8080 dutchcoders/transfer.sh:latest --provider local --basedir /tmp/
 ```
 
+## S3 Usage
+
+For the usage with a AWS S3 Bucket, you just need to specify the following options:
+- provider
+- aws-access-key
+- aws-secret-key
+- bucket
+- s3-region
+
+If you specify the s3-region, you don't need to set the endpoint URL since the correct endpoint will used automatically.
+
+### Custom S3 providers
+
+To use a custom non-AWS S3 provider, you need to specify the endpoint as definied from your cloud provider.
+
 ## Contributions
 
 Contributions are welcome.
diff --git a/cmd/cmd.go b/cmd/cmd.go
index 59ab981..5950a39 100644
--- a/cmd/cmd.go
+++ b/cmd/cmd.go
@@ -99,9 +99,15 @@ var globalFlags = []cli.Flag{
 	cli.StringFlag{
 		Name:   "s3-endpoint",
 		Usage:  "",
-		Value:  "http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com",
+		Value:  "",
 		EnvVar: "S3_ENDPOINT",
 	},
+	cli.StringFlag{
+		Name:   "s3-region",
+		Usage:  "",
+		Value:  "eu-west-1",
+		EnvVar: "S3_REGION",
+	},
 	cli.StringFlag{
 		Name:   "aws-access-key",
 		Usage:  "",
@@ -332,7 +338,7 @@ func New() *Cmd {
 				panic("secret-key not set.")
 			} else if bucket := c.String("bucket"); bucket == "" {
 				panic("bucket not set.")
-			} else if storage, err := server.NewS3Storage(accessKey, secretKey, bucket, c.String("s3-endpoint"), logger, c.Bool("s3-no-multipart")); err != nil {
+			} else if storage, err := server.NewS3Storage(accessKey, secretKey, bucket, c.String("s3-endpoint"), logger, c.Bool("s3-no-multipart"), c.String("s3-region")); err != nil {
 				panic(err)
 			} else {
 				options = append(options, server.UseStorage(storage))
diff --git a/server/storage.go b/server/storage.go
index 21b4299..362bc9c 100644
--- a/server/storage.go
+++ b/server/storage.go
@@ -132,8 +132,8 @@ type S3Storage struct {
 	noMultipart bool
 }
 
-func NewS3Storage(accessKey, secretKey, bucketName, endpoint string, logger *log.Logger, disableMultipart bool) (*S3Storage, error) {
-	sess := getAwsSession(accessKey, secretKey, endpoint)
+func NewS3Storage(accessKey, secretKey, bucketName, endpoint string, logger *log.Logger, disableMultipart bool, region string) (*S3Storage, error) {
+	sess := getAwsSession(accessKey, secretKey, endpoint, region)
 
 	return &S3Storage{bucket: bucketName, s3: s3.New(sess), session: sess, logger: logger, noMultipart: disableMultipart}, nil
 }
diff --git a/server/utils.go b/server/utils.go
index a01b423..86758e9 100644
--- a/server/utils.go
+++ b/server/utils.go
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ import (
 	"github.com/golang/gddo/httputil/header"
 )
 
-func getAwsSession(accessKey, secretKey, endpoint string) *session.Session {
+func getAwsSession(accessKey, secretKey, endpoint string, region string) *session.Session {
 	return session.Must(session.NewSession(&aws.Config{
-		Region:      aws.String("eu-west-1"),
+		Region:      aws.String(region),
 		Endpoint:    aws.String(endpoint),
 		Credentials: credentials.NewStaticCredentials(accessKey, secretKey, ""),
 	}))