diff --git a/.ci/ansible/start_container.yaml b/.ci/ansible/start_container.yaml
index 4ef94c86..f0b4d43c 100644
--- a/.ci/ansible/start_container.yaml
+++ b/.ci/ansible/start_container.yaml
@@ -55,13 +55,35 @@
       become: true
 
     - name: "Create Pulp Bucket"
-      amazon.aws.s3_bucket:
-        aws_access_key: "{{ minio_access_key }}"
-        aws_secret_key: "{{ minio_secret_key }}"
-        endpoint_url: "http://minio:9000"
-        region: "eu-central-1"
-        name: "pulp3"
-        state: "present"
+      ansible.builtin.command:
+        argv:
+          - "python3"
+          - "-c"
+          - |
+            import boto3
+            from botocore.exceptions import ClientError
+            client = boto3.client(
+                "s3",
+                aws_access_key_id="{{ minio_access_key }}",
+                aws_secret_access_key="{{ minio_secret_key }}",
+                endpoint_url="http://minio:9000",
+                region_name="eu-central-1",
+            )
+            try:
+                client.create_bucket(
+                    Bucket="pulp3",
+                    CreateBucketConfiguration={"LocationConstraint": "eu-central-1"},
+                )
+            except ClientError as exc:
+                if exc.response["Error"]["Code"] not in (
+                    "BucketAlreadyOwnedByYou",
+                    "BucketAlreadyExists",
+                ):
+                    raise
+      register: "create_bucket"
+      retries: 6
+      delay: 5
+      until: "create_bucket is succeeded"
       when: "s3_test | default(false)"
 
     - name: "Wait on Services"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scripts/before_install.sh b/.github/workflows/scripts/before_install.sh
index 552aee82..93ea18a7 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/scripts/before_install.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/scripts/before_install.sh
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ fi
 COMPONENT_VERSION="$(bump-my-version show current_version | tail -n -1 | python -c 'from packaging.version import Version; print(Version(input()))')"
 COMPONENT_SOURCE="./pulp_python/dist/pulp_python-${COMPONENT_VERSION}-py3-none-any.whl"
 if [ "$TEST" = "s3" ]; then
-  COMPONENT_SOURCE="${COMPONENT_SOURCE} pulpcore[s3] git+https://github.com/gerrod3/botocore.git@fix-100-continue"
+  COMPONENT_SOURCE="${COMPONENT_SOURCE} pulpcore[s3]"
 fi
 if [ "$TEST" = "azure" ]; then
   COMPONENT_SOURCE="${COMPONENT_SOURCE} pulpcore[azure,uvloop]"
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ s3_test: true
 minio_access_key: "${MINIO_ACCESS_KEY}"
 minio_secret_key: "${MINIO_SECRET_KEY}"
 pulp_scenario_settings: {"MEDIA_ROOT": "", "STORAGES": {"default": {"BACKEND": "storages.backends.s3boto3.S3Boto3Storage", "OPTIONS": {"access_key": "AKIAIT2Z5TDYPX3ARJBA", "addressing_style": "path", "bucket_name": "pulp3", "default_acl": "@none", "endpoint_url": "http://minio:9000", "region_name": "eu-central-1", "secret_key": "fqRvjWaPU5o0fCqQuUWbj9Fainj2pVZtBCiDiieS", "signature_version": "s3v4"}}, "staticfiles": {"BACKEND": "django.contrib.staticfiles.storage.StaticFilesStorage"}}, "api_root": "/rerouted/djnd/", "domain_enabled": true}
-pulp_scenario_env: {}
+# MinIO omits 100-continue on 0-byte PUTs; stock botocore hangs without this (boto/botocore#3123).
+pulp_scenario_env: {"BOTO_EXPERIMENTAL__NO_EMPTY_CONTINUE": "true"}
 VARSYAML
 fi
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/scripts/install.sh b/.github/workflows/scripts/install.sh
index 7feb2126..f79ca023 100755
--- a/.github/workflows/scripts/install.sh
+++ b/.github/workflows/scripts/install.sh
@@ -20,18 +20,6 @@ PIP_REQUIREMENTS=("pulp-cli" "yq")
 # This must be the **only** package install on the test runner.
 uv pip install ${PIP_REQUIREMENTS[*]}
 
-if [[ "$TEST" = "s3" ]]; then
-for i in {1..3}
-do
-  ansible-galaxy collection install "amazon.aws:11.1.0" && s=0 && break || s=$? && sleep 3
-done
-if [[ $s -gt 0 ]]
-then
-  echo "Failed to install amazon.aws"
-  exit $s
-fi
-fi
-
 # Check out the pulp-cli branch matching the installed version.
 PULP_CLI_VERSION="$(uv pip freeze | sed -n -e 's/pulp-cli==//p')"
 git clone --depth 1 --branch "$PULP_CLI_VERSION" https://github.com/pulp/pulp-cli.git ../pulp-cli