diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt
index 3b3bf8cffe41b..b45c843d28eb8 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v0.17.0.txt
@@ -467,6 +467,7 @@ Other enhancements
 
 - ``pd.read_csv`` can now read bz2-compressed files incrementally, and the C parser can read bz2-compressed files from AWS S3 (:issue:`11070`, :issue:`11072`).
 
+- In ``pd.read_csv``, recognize "s3n://" and "s3a://" URLs as designating S3 file storage (:issue:`11070`, :issue:`11071`).
 
 .. _whatsnew_0170.api:
 
diff --git a/pandas/io/common.py b/pandas/io/common.py
index c6ece61f05a01..5ab5640ca12c0 100644
--- a/pandas/io/common.py
+++ b/pandas/io/common.py
@@ -66,9 +66,9 @@ def _is_url(url):
 
 
 def _is_s3_url(url):
-    """Check for an s3 url"""
+    """Check for an s3, s3n, or s3a url"""
     try:
-        return parse_url(url).scheme == 's3'
+        return parse_url(url).scheme in ['s3', 's3n', 's3a']
     except:
         return False
 
diff --git a/pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py b/pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py
index fabe4ce40b22f..205140e02a8ea 100755
--- a/pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py
+++ b/pandas/io/tests/test_parsers.py
@@ -4253,6 +4253,22 @@ def test_parse_public_s3_bucket(self):
         nt.assert_false(df.empty)
         tm.assert_frame_equal(pd.read_csv(tm.get_data_path('tips.csv')), df)
 
+    @tm.network
+    def test_parse_public_s3n_bucket(self):
+        # Read from AWS s3 as "s3n" URL
+        df = pd.read_csv('s3n://pandas-test/tips.csv', nrows=10)
+        self.assertTrue(isinstance(df, pd.DataFrame))
+        self.assertFalse(df.empty)
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(pd.read_csv(tm.get_data_path('tips.csv')).iloc[:10], df)
+
+    @tm.network
+    def test_parse_public_s3a_bucket(self):
+        # Read from AWS s3 as "s3a" URL
+        df = pd.read_csv('s3a://pandas-test/tips.csv', nrows=10)
+        self.assertTrue(isinstance(df, pd.DataFrame))
+        self.assertFalse(df.empty)
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(pd.read_csv(tm.get_data_path('tips.csv')).iloc[:10], df)
+
     @tm.network
     def test_s3_fails(self):
         import boto