diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 661bed4397aa4..23a4c5c656800 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -38,9 +38,11 @@ RUN echo deb http://llvm.org/apt/trusty/ llvm-toolchain-trusty main > /etc/apt/s
 # Packaged dependencies
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
 	apparmor \
+	apt-utils \
 	aufs-tools \
 	automake \
 	bash-completion \
+	bsdmainutils \
 	btrfs-tools \
 	build-essential \
 	clang-3.8 \
@@ -64,12 +66,12 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
 	python-mock \
 	python-pip \
 	python-websocket \
-	s3cmd=1.5.0* \
 	ubuntu-zfs \
 	xfsprogs \
 	libzfs-dev \
 	tar \
 	--no-install-recommends \
+	&& pip install awscli==1.10.15 \
 	&& ln -snf /usr/bin/clang-3.8 /usr/local/bin/clang \
 	&& ln -snf /usr/bin/clang++-3.8 /usr/local/bin/clang++
 
@@ -187,13 +189,6 @@ RUN git clone https://github.com/docker/docker-py.git /docker-py \
 	&& git checkout -q $DOCKER_PY_COMMIT \
 	&& pip install -r test-requirements.txt
 
-# Setup s3cmd config
-RUN { \
-		echo '[default]'; \
-		echo 'access_key=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY'; \
-		echo 'secret_key=$AWS_SECRET_KEY'; \
-	} > ~/.s3cfg
-
 # Set user.email so crosbymichael's in-container merge commits go smoothly
 RUN git config --global user.email 'docker-dummy@example.com'
 
diff --git a/Dockerfile.aarch64 b/Dockerfile.aarch64
index 85c1e7ec2dd61..3d50968eec8b6 100644
--- a/Dockerfile.aarch64
+++ b/Dockerfile.aarch64
@@ -136,13 +136,6 @@ RUN git clone https://github.com/docker/docker-py.git /docker-py \
 	&& git checkout -q $DOCKER_PY_COMMIT \
 	&& pip install -r test-requirements.txt
 
-# Setup s3cmd config
-RUN { \
-		echo '[default]'; \
-		echo 'access_key=$AWS_ACCESS_KEY'; \
-		echo 'secret_key=$AWS_SECRET_KEY'; \
-	} > ~/.s3cfg
-
 # Set user.email so crosbymichael's in-container merge commits go smoothly
 RUN git config --global user.email 'docker-dummy@example.com'
 
diff --git a/hack/install.sh b/hack/install.sh
index 218ad99c8c560..d4c2ef4f17bd1 100755
--- a/hack/install.sh
+++ b/hack/install.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ set -e
 #   To update this script on https://get.docker.com,
 #   use hack/release.sh during a normal release,
 #   or the following one-liner for script hotfixes:
-#     s3cmd put --acl-public -P hack/install.sh s3://get.docker.com/index
+#     aws s3 cp --acl public-read hack/install.sh s3://get.docker.com/index
 #
 
 url="https://get.docker.com/"
diff --git a/hack/make/.integration-daemon-start b/hack/make/.integration-daemon-start
index ba466b7c001e4..ab4c8aaec19e9 100644
--- a/hack/make/.integration-daemon-start
+++ b/hack/make/.integration-daemon-start
@@ -9,6 +9,13 @@ if ! command -v docker &> /dev/null; then
 	false
 fi
 
+if [ -z "$DOCKER_TEST_HOST" ]; then
+	if docker version &> /dev/null; then
+		echo >&2 'skipping daemon start, since daemon appears to be already started'
+		return
+	fi
+fi
+
 # intentionally open a couple bogus file descriptors to help test that they get scrubbed in containers
 exec 41>&1 42>&2
 
diff --git a/hack/make/release-deb b/hack/make/release-deb
index 9b0b3ca02a979..946e5de813170 100755
--- a/hack/make/release-deb
+++ b/hack/make/release-deb
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ set -e
 #
 # ... and so on and so forth for the builds created by hack/make/build-deb
 
+source "$(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE")/.integration-daemon-start"
 source "$(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE")/.detect-daemon-osarch"
 
 : ${DOCKER_RELEASE_DIR:=$DEST}
diff --git a/hack/make/release-rpm b/hack/make/release-rpm
index 5ed25cbe190c8..b952b79e06452 100755
--- a/hack/make/release-rpm
+++ b/hack/make/release-rpm
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ set -e
 #
 # ... and so on and so forth for the builds created by hack/make/build-rpm
 
+source "$(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE")/.integration-daemon-start"
 source "$(dirname "$BASH_SOURCE")/.detect-daemon-osarch"
 
 : ${DOCKER_RELEASE_DIR:=$DEST}
diff --git a/hack/release.sh b/hack/release.sh
index e9a239c1e0aa4..b00a500fecd3c 100755
--- a/hack/release.sh
+++ b/hack/release.sh
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ cd /go/src/github.com/docker/docker
 [ -x hack/make.sh ] || usage
 
 export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
-: ${AWS_DEFAULT_REGION:=us-west-2}
+: ${AWS_DEFAULT_REGION:=us-west-1}
 
 RELEASE_BUNDLES=(
 	binary
@@ -79,8 +79,6 @@ fi
 
 setup_s3() {
 	echo "Setting up S3"
-	# TODO: Move to Dockerfile
-	pip install awscli==1.10.15
 	# Try creating the bucket. Ignore errors (it might already exist).
 	aws s3 mb "s3://$BUCKET" 2>/dev/null || true
 	# Check access to the bucket.
@@ -104,8 +102,7 @@ s3_url() {
 			echo "https://$BUCKET_PATH"
 			;;
 		*)
-			# TODO: remove s3cmd dependency
-			BASE_URL=$( s3cmd ws-info s3://$BUCKET | awk -v 'FS=: +' '/http:\/\/'$BUCKET'/ { gsub(/\/+$/, "", $2); print $2 }' )
+			BASE_URL="http://${BUCKET}.s3-website-${AWS_DEFAULT_REGION}.amazonaws.com"
 			if [[ -n "$AWS_S3_BUCKET_PATH" ]] ; then
 				echo "$BASE_URL/$AWS_S3_BUCKET_PATH"
 			else
diff --git a/project/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md b/project/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md
index 2b0e7caae3b34..b9dcf7f4eaae4 100644
--- a/project/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md
+++ b/project/RELEASE-CHECKLIST.md
@@ -270,8 +270,9 @@ docker build -t docker .
 # static binaries are still pushed to s3
 docker run \
     -e AWS_S3_BUCKET=test.docker.com \
-    -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY \
-    -e AWS_SECRET_KEY \
+    -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID \
+    -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY \
+    -e AWS_DEFAULT_REGION \
     -i -t --privileged \
     docker \
     hack/release.sh
@@ -434,8 +435,9 @@ docker build -t docker .
 # static binaries are still pushed to s3
 docker run \
     -e AWS_S3_BUCKET=get.docker.com \
-    -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY \
-    -e AWS_SECRET_KEY \
+    -e AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID \
+    -e AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY \
+    -e AWS_DEFAULT_REGION \
     -i -t --privileged \
     docker \
     hack/release.sh