diff --git a/indexing-common/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/common/s3/S3Utils.java b/indexing-common/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/common/s3/S3Utils.java
index f0ba2d133d3..15fa7c88240 100644
--- a/indexing-common/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/common/s3/S3Utils.java
+++ b/indexing-common/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/common/s3/S3Utils.java
@@ -21,15 +21,10 @@ package com.metamx.druid.common.s3;
 
 import com.google.common.base.Throwables;
 import com.metamx.common.logger.Logger;
-import org.jets3t.service.S3ServiceException;
 import org.jets3t.service.ServiceException;
-import org.jets3t.service.impl.rest.httpclient.RestS3Service;
-import org.jets3t.service.model.S3Bucket;
 import org.jets3t.service.model.S3Object;
 
-import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
 import java.util.Random;
 import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
 
@@ -62,25 +57,23 @@ public class S3Utils
   {
     int nTry = 0;
     final int maxTries = 3;
-    final long baseSleepMillis = 1000;
-    final double fuzziness = 0.2;
     while (true) {
       try {
         nTry++;
         return f.call();
       }
+      catch (IOException e) {
+        if (nTry <= maxTries) {
+          awaitNextRetry(e, nTry);
+        } else {
+          throw Throwables.propagate(e);
+        }
+      }
       catch (ServiceException e) {
         if (nTry <= maxTries &&
             (e.getCause() instanceof IOException ||
              (e.getErrorCode() != null && e.getErrorCode().equals("RequestTimeout")))) {
-          // Retryable
-          final long sleepMillis = Math.max(
-              baseSleepMillis,
-              (long) (baseSleepMillis * Math.pow(2, nTry) *
-                      (1 + new Random().nextGaussian() * fuzziness))
-          );
-          log.info(e, "S3 fail on try %d/%d, retrying in %,dms.", nTry, maxTries, sleepMillis);
-          Thread.sleep(sleepMillis);
+          awaitNextRetry(e, nTry);
         } else {
           throw e;
         }
@@ -90,4 +83,17 @@ public class S3Utils
       }
     }
   }
+
+  private static void awaitNextRetry(Exception e, int nTry) throws InterruptedException
+  {
+    final long baseSleepMillis = 1000;
+    final double fuzziness = 0.2;
+    final long sleepMillis = Math.max(
+        baseSleepMillis,
+        (long) (baseSleepMillis * Math.pow(2, nTry) *
+                (1 + new Random().nextGaussian() * fuzziness))
+    );
+    log.info(e, "S3 fail on try %d, retrying in %,dms.", nTry, sleepMillis);
+    Thread.sleep(sleepMillis);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/loading/S3DataSegmentPuller.java b/server/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/loading/S3DataSegmentPuller.java
index 59100b5fdeb..75d212886da 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/loading/S3DataSegmentPuller.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/com/metamx/druid/loading/S3DataSegmentPuller.java
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ public class S3DataSegmentPuller implements DataSegmentPuller
                 }
                 catch (IOException e) {
                   FileUtils.deleteDirectory(outDir);
-                  throw new SegmentLoadingException(e, "Problem decompressing object[%s]", s3Obj);
+                  throw new IOException(String.format("Problem decompressing object[%s]", s3Obj), e);
                 }
                 finally {
                   Closeables.closeQuietly(in);