diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 50a833a..e59b0f9 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@ media_storage_providers:
   store_remote: True
   store_synchronous: True
   config:
+    verify: <boolean/string>
+    #Whether or not to verify SSL certificates. By default SSL certificates are verified. You can provide the following values:
+    #False - do not validate SSL certificates. SSL will still be used (unless use_ssl is False), but SSL certificates will not be verified.
+    #path/to/cert/bundle.pem - A filename of the CA cert bundle to uses. You can specify this argument if you want to use a different CA cert bundle than the one used by botocore.
+
     bucket: <S3_BUCKET_NAME>
     # All of the below options are optional, for use with non-AWS S3-like
     # services, or to specify access tokens here instead of some external method.
diff --git a/s3_storage_provider.py b/s3_storage_provider.py
index 8047925..c7089be 100644
--- a/s3_storage_provider.py
+++ b/s3_storage_provider.py
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ def __init__(self, hs, config):
 
         if "secret_access_key" in config:
             self.api_kwargs["aws_secret_access_key"] = config["secret_access_key"]
+        
+        if "verify" in config:
+            self.api_kwargs["verify"]=config["verify"]
 
         self._s3_client = None
         self._s3_client_lock = threading.Lock()
@@ -179,6 +182,9 @@ def parse_config(config):
         if "secret_access_key" in config:
             result["secret_access_key"] = config["secret_access_key"]
 
+        if "verify" in config:
+            result["verify"]=config["verify"]
+
         if "sse_customer_key" in config:
             result["extra_args"]["SSECustomerKey"] = config["sse_customer_key"]
             result["extra_args"]["SSECustomerAlgorithm"] = config.get(