diff --git a/frontend/server/configs.ts b/frontend/server/configs.ts
index 5f8a69f8c2e..f93b6c82b6d 100644
--- a/frontend/server/configs.ts
+++ b/frontend/server/configs.ts
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ export function loadConfigs(argv: string[], env: ProcessEnv): UIConfigs {
     /** minio client use these to retrieve s3 objects/artifacts */
     AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
     AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
+    AWS_REGION,
     /** http/https base URL */
     HTTP_BASE_URL = '',
     /** http/https fetch with this authorization header key (for example: 'Authorization') */
@@ -124,6 +125,7 @@ export function loadConfigs(argv: string[], env: ProcessEnv): UIConfigs {
       aws: {
         accessKey: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID || '',
         endPoint: 's3.amazonaws.com',
+        region: AWS_REGION || 'us-east-1',
         secretKey: AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY || '',
       },
       http: {
@@ -201,6 +203,7 @@ export interface MinioConfigs {
 }
 export interface AWSConfigs {
   endPoint: string;
+  region: string;
   accessKey: string;
   secretKey: string;
 }
diff --git a/frontend/server/integration-tests/artifact-get.test.ts b/frontend/server/integration-tests/artifact-get.test.ts
index 36aaa375a14..868678233d0 100644
--- a/frontend/server/integration-tests/artifact-get.test.ts
+++ b/frontend/server/integration-tests/artifact-get.test.ts
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ describe('/artifacts', () => {
           expect(mockedMinioClient).toBeCalledWith({
             accessKey: 'aws123',
             endPoint: 's3.amazonaws.com',
+            region: 'us-east-1',
             secretKey: 'awsSecret123',
           });
           done(err);
@@ -126,6 +127,30 @@ describe('/artifacts', () => {
           expect(mockedMinioClient).toBeCalledWith({
             accessKey: 'aws123',
             endPoint: 's3.amazonaws.com',
+            region: 'us-east-1',
+            secretKey: 'awsSecret123',
+          });
+          done(err);
+        });
+    });
+
+    it('responds with a s3 artifact from bucket in non-default region if source=s3', done => {
+      const mockedMinioClient: jest.Mock = jest.spyOn(minioHelper, 'createMinioClient') as any;
+      const configs = loadConfigs(argv, {
+        AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: 'aws123',
+        AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: 'awsSecret123',
+        AWS_REGION: 'eu-central-1',
+      });
+      app = new UIServer(configs);
+
+      const request = requests(app.start());
+      request
+        .get('/artifacts/get?source=s3&bucket=ml-pipeline&key=hello%2Fworld.txt')
+        .expect(200, artifactContent, err => {
+          expect(mockedMinioClient).toBeCalledWith({
+            accessKey: 'aws123',
+            endPoint: 's3.amazonaws.com',
+            region: 'eu-central-1',
             secretKey: 'awsSecret123',
           });
           done(err);