diff --git a/apis/atmos/src/main/java/org/jclouds/atmos/filters/SignRequest.java b/apis/atmos/src/main/java/org/jclouds/atmos/filters/SignRequest.java
index 54d6c3c0e4..7380d802bc 100644
--- a/apis/atmos/src/main/java/org/jclouds/atmos/filters/SignRequest.java
+++ b/apis/atmos/src/main/java/org/jclouds/atmos/filters/SignRequest.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import static org.jclouds.util.Patterns.NEWLINE_PATTERN;
 import static org.jclouds.util.Strings2.toInputStream;
 
 import java.util.Set;
-import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import javax.annotation.Resource;
 import javax.inject.Inject;
@@ -136,8 +135,6 @@ public class SignRequest implements HttpRequestFilter {
       toSign.append(request.getMethod()).append("\n");
    }
    
-   private static final Pattern TWO_SPACE_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("  ");
-
    private void appendCanonicalizedHeaders(HttpRequest request, StringBuilder toSign) {
       // TreeSet == Sort the headers alphabetically.
       Set<String> headers = Sets.newTreeSet(request.getHeaders().keySet());
@@ -149,7 +146,7 @@ public class SignRequest implements HttpRequestFilter {
             // replacing any
             // newline characters and extra embedded white spaces in the value.
             for (String value : request.getHeaders().get(header)) {
-               value = Strings2.replaceAll(value, TWO_SPACE_PATTERN, " ");
+               value = value.replace("  ", " ");
                value = Strings2.replaceAll(value, NEWLINE_PATTERN, "");
                toSign.append(value).append(' ');
             }
diff --git a/apis/s3/src/main/java/org/jclouds/s3/xml/ListBucketHandler.java b/apis/s3/src/main/java/org/jclouds/s3/xml/ListBucketHandler.java
index 9f322de7d9..99c0335856 100644
--- a/apis/s3/src/main/java/org/jclouds/s3/xml/ListBucketHandler.java
+++ b/apis/s3/src/main/java/org/jclouds/s3/xml/ListBucketHandler.java
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ import org.jclouds.s3.domain.ListBucketResponse;
 import org.jclouds.s3.domain.ObjectMetadata;
 import org.jclouds.s3.domain.ObjectMetadataBuilder;
 import org.jclouds.s3.domain.internal.ListBucketResponseImpl;
-import org.jclouds.util.Strings2;
 import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
 
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
@@ -102,7 +101,7 @@ public class ListBucketHandler extends ParseSax.HandlerWithResult<ListBucketResp
       } else if (qName.equals("ETag")) {
          String currentETag = currentOrNull(currentText);
          builder.eTag(currentETag);
-         currentETag = Strings2.replaceAll(currentETag, '"', "");
+         currentETag = currentETag.replace("\"", "");
          if (!MULTIPART_BLOB_ETAG.matcher(currentETag).matches()) {
             builder.contentMD5(base16().lowerCase().decode(currentETag));
          }
diff --git a/blobstore/src/main/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/functions/HttpGetOptionsListToGetOptions.java b/blobstore/src/main/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/functions/HttpGetOptionsListToGetOptions.java
index 70f3431538..c43a4bd755 100644
--- a/blobstore/src/main/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/functions/HttpGetOptionsListToGetOptions.java
+++ b/blobstore/src/main/java/org/jclouds/blobstore/functions/HttpGetOptionsListToGetOptions.java
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ import javax.inject.Singleton;
 
 import org.jclouds.blobstore.options.GetOptions;
 import org.jclouds.date.DateService;
-import org.jclouds.util.Strings2;
 
 import com.google.common.base.Function;
 
@@ -49,14 +48,14 @@ public class HttpGetOptionsListToGetOptions implements
       org.jclouds.blobstore.options.GetOptions to = new org.jclouds.blobstore.options.GetOptions();
       if (from.length != 0) {
          if (from[0].getIfMatch() != null) {
-            to.ifETagMatches(Strings2.replaceAll(from[0].getIfMatch(), '"', ""));
+            to.ifETagMatches(from[0].getIfMatch().replace("\"", ""));
          }
          if (from[0].getIfModifiedSince() != null) {
             Date time = dateService.rfc822DateParse(from[0].getIfModifiedSince());
             to.ifModifiedSince(time);
          }
          if (from[0].getIfNoneMatch() != null) {
-            to.ifETagDoesntMatch(Strings2.replaceAll(from[0].getIfNoneMatch(), '"', ""));
+            to.ifETagDoesntMatch(from[0].getIfNoneMatch().replace("\"", ""));
          }
          if (from[0].getIfUnmodifiedSince() != null) {
             Date time = dateService.rfc822DateParse(from[0].getIfUnmodifiedSince());
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/util/Strings2.java b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/util/Strings2.java
index 6b59b53ecf..3b3b09ec65 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/util/Strings2.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/jclouds/util/Strings2.java
@@ -119,25 +119,6 @@ public class Strings2 {
       return returnVal;
    }
 
-   public static String replaceAll(String input, char match, String replacement) {
-      if (input.indexOf(match) != -1) {
-         try {
-            input = CHAR_TO_PATTERN.get(match).matcher(input).replaceAll(replacement);
-         } catch (ExecutionException e) {
-            throw new IllegalStateException("error creating pattern: " + match, e);
-         }
-      }
-      return input;
-   }
-
-   private static final LoadingCache<Character, Pattern> CHAR_TO_PATTERN = CacheBuilder.newBuilder()
-         .<Character, Pattern> build(new CacheLoader<Character, Pattern>() {
-            @Override
-            public Pattern load(Character plain) {
-               return Pattern.compile(plain + "");
-            }
-         });
-   
    public static String toString(InputSupplier<? extends InputStream> supplier)
          throws IOException {
       return CharStreams.toString(CharStreams.newReaderSupplier(supplier,