diff --git a/DOCS.md b/DOCS.md
index 83a95c3..8f7f435 100644
--- a/DOCS.md
+++ b/DOCS.md
@@ -187,3 +187,26 @@ pipeline:
       app_version: 1.0.0
     parallelism: 2
 ```
+
+## Remote configuration
+
+If you are configuring an s3 remote state and require S3 environment secrets you add the secrets "FOO" and "BAR" to your drone environment and reference the secrets as follows. These will not be outputted to stdout.
+
+```yaml
+pipeline:
+  terraform:
+    image: jmccann/drone-terraform:0.5
+    plan: false
+    remote:
+      backend: S3
+      config:
+        bucket: my-terraform-config-bucket
+        key: tf-states/my-project
+        region: us-east-1
+    vars:
+      app_name: my-project
+      app_version: 1.0.0
+    secrets:
+      AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: FOO
+      AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: BAR
+```
diff --git a/plugin.go b/plugin.go
index 818b291..3ad641b 100644
--- a/plugin.go
+++ b/plugin.go
@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ func (p Plugin) Exec() error {
 	}
 
 	var commands []*exec.Cmd
+
+	if len(p.Config.Secrets) != 0 {
+		exportSecrets(p.Config.Secrets)
+	}
+
 	remote := p.Config.Remote
 	if p.Config.Cacert != "" {
 		commands = append(commands, installCaCert(p.Config.Cacert))
@@ -94,6 +99,12 @@ func installCaCert(cacert string) *exec.Cmd {
 	)
 }
 
+func exportSecrets(secrets map[string]string) {
+	for k, v := range secrets {
+		os.Setenv(fmt.Sprintf("%s", k), fmt.Sprintf("%s", os.Getenv(v)))
+	}
+}
+
 func deleteCache() *exec.Cmd {
 	return exec.Command(
 		"rm",