diff --git a/config/datastore.go b/config/datastore.go
index 6749a4c39..89ded36f1 100644
--- a/config/datastore.go
+++ b/config/datastore.go
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 package config
 
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+)
+
 // DefaultDataStoreDirectory is the directory to store all the local IPFS data.
 const DefaultDataStoreDirectory = "datastore"
 
@@ -10,6 +14,22 @@ type Datastore struct {
 	StorageMax         string // in B, kB, kiB, MB, ...
 	StorageGCWatermark int64  // in percentage to multiply on StorageMax
 	GCPeriod           string // in ns, us, ms, s, m, h
+
+	Params *json.RawMessage
+}
+
+func (d *Datastore) ParamData() []byte {
+	if d.Params == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	return []byte(*d.Params)
+}
+
+type S3Datastore struct {
+	Region string `json:"region"`
+	Bucket string `json:"bucket"`
+	ACL    string `json:"acl"`
 }
 
 // DataStorePath returns the default data store path given a configuration root