diff --git a/src/views/backups.html b/src/views/backups.html
index 51f1015a7..be422300e 100644
--- a/src/views/backups.html
+++ b/src/views/backups.html
@@ -164,6 +164,11 @@
               <select class="form-control" name="region" id="inputConfigureBackupS3Region" ng-model="configureBackup.region" ng-options="a.value as a.name for a in s3Regions" ng-disabled="configureBackup.busy" ng-required="configureBackup.provider === 's3'"></select>
             </div>
 
+            <div class="form-group" ng-class="{ 'has-error': configureBackup.error.region }" ng-show="configureBackup.provider === 's3-v4-compat'">
+              <label class="control-label" for="inputConfigureBackupS3V4CompatRegion">Region</label>
+              <input class="form-control" type="text" name="region" id="inputConfigureBackupS3V4CompatRegion" ng-model="configureBackup.region" ng-disabled="configureBackup.busy" placeholder="Leave empty to use us-east-1 as default"></input>
+            </div>
+
             <div class="form-group" ng-class="{ 'has-error': configureBackup.error.region }" ng-show="configureBackup.provider === 'digitalocean-spaces'">
               <label class="control-label" for="inputConfigureBackupDORegion">Region</label>
               <select class="form-control" name="region" id="inputConfigureBackupDORegion" ng-model="configureBackup.endpoint" ng-options="a.value as a.name for a in doSpacesRegions" ng-disabled="configureBackup.busy" ng-required="configureBackup.provider === 'digitalocean-spaces'"></select>
diff --git a/src/views/backups.js b/src/views/backups.js
index 3c9dc6c9d..4f0d5f135 100644
--- a/src/views/backups.js
+++ b/src/views/backups.js
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ angular.module('Application').controller('BackupsController', ['$scope', '$locat
                     if ($scope.configureBackup.region) backupConfig.region = $scope.configureBackup.region;
                     delete backupConfig.endpoint;
                 } else if (backupConfig.provider === 'minio' || backupConfig.provider === 's3-v4-compat') {
-                    backupConfig.region = 'us-east-1';
+                    backupConfig.region = $scope.configureBackup.region || 'us-east-1';
                     backupConfig.acceptSelfSignedCerts = $scope.configureBackup.acceptSelfSignedCerts;
                     backupConfig.s3ForcePathStyle = true; // might want to expose this in the UI
                 } else if (backupConfig.provider === 'exoscale-sos') {