diff --git a/src/Mod/Cloud/App/AppCloud.cpp b/src/Mod/Cloud/App/AppCloud.cpp
index ef53719043..bf187c27ce 100644
--- a/src/Mod/Cloud/App/AppCloud.cpp
+++ b/src/Mod/Cloud/App/AppCloud.cpp
@@ -125,6 +125,17 @@ Py::Object Cloud::Module::sCloudRestore(const Py::Tuple& args)
     return Py::None();
 }
 
+Py::Object Cloud::Module::sCloudProtocolVersion(const Py::Tuple& args)
+{
+    char *ProtocolVersion;
+    if (!PyArg_ParseTuple(args.ptr(), "et","utf-8", &TCPPort))     // convert args: Python->C
+        return Py::None();
+    if (this->ProtocolVersion.getStrValue() != ProtocolVersion) {
+            this->ProtocolVersion.setValue(ProtocolVersion);
+    }
+    return Py::None();
+}
+
 struct data_buffer
 {
         const char *ptr;
diff --git a/src/Mod/Cloud/App/AppCloud.h b/src/Mod/Cloud/App/AppCloud.h
index 23dcc75967..2c59c4985f 100644
--- a/src/Mod/Cloud/App/AppCloud.h
+++ b/src/Mod/Cloud/App/AppCloud.h
@@ -122,6 +122,10 @@ public:
             "Restore(string) -- Restore to the active document from the Cloud."
         );
 
+	add_varargs_method("ProtocolVersion",&Module::sCloudProtocolVersion,
+            "ProtocolVersion(string) -- Specify Amazon s3 protocol version (2 or 4)"
+        );
+
         initialize("This module is the Cloud module."); // register with Python
     }
 
@@ -131,6 +135,7 @@ public:
     App::PropertyString TCPPort;
     App::PropertyString TokenAuth;
     App::PropertyString TokenSecret;
+    App::PropertyString ProtocolVersion;
     bool cloudSave(const char* BucketName);
     bool cloudRestore(const char* BucketName);
 
@@ -141,6 +146,7 @@ private:
     Py::Object sCloudTCPPort  (const Py::Tuple& args);
     Py::Object sCloudSave  (const Py::Tuple& args);
     Py::Object sCloudRestore  (const Py::Tuple& args);
+    Py::Object sCloudProtocolVersion  (const Py::Tuple& args);
 
 
 };
@@ -178,6 +184,7 @@ protected:
     const char* TokenAuth;
     const char* TokenSecret;
     const char* Bucket;
+    const char* ProtocolVersion;
     std::stringstream FileStream;
 };