diff --git a/tests/test_feedexport.py b/tests/test_feedexport.py
index eafe1b334..19ca311c3 100644
--- a/tests/test_feedexport.py
+++ b/tests/test_feedexport.py
@@ -235,8 +235,10 @@ class BlockingFeedStorageTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
 
 class S3FeedStorageTest(unittest.TestCase):
-    def test_parse_credentials(self):
+    def setUp(self):
         skip_if_no_boto()
+
+    def test_parse_credentials(self):
         aws_credentials = {
             "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID": "settings_key",
             "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY": "settings_secret",
@@ -272,8 +274,6 @@ class S3FeedStorageTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def test_store(self):
-        skip_if_no_boto()
-
         settings = {
             "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID": "access_key",
             "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY": "secret_key",
@@ -392,7 +392,6 @@ class S3FeedStorageTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def test_store_botocore_without_acl(self):
-        skip_if_no_boto()
         storage = S3FeedStorage(
             "s3://mybucket/export.csv",
             "access_key",
@@ -408,7 +407,6 @@ class S3FeedStorageTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def test_store_botocore_with_acl(self):
-        skip_if_no_boto()
         storage = S3FeedStorage(
             "s3://mybucket/export.csv", "access_key", "secret_key", "custom-acl"
         )
@@ -888,15 +886,10 @@ class FeedExportTest(FeedExportTestBase):
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def test_stats_multiple_file(self):
         settings = {
-            "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID": "access_key",
-            "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY": "secret_key",
             "FEEDS": {
                 printf_escape(path_to_url(str(self._random_temp_filename()))): {
                     "format": "json",
                 },
-                "s3://bucket/key/foo.csv": {
-                    "format": "csv",
-                },
                 "stdout:": {
                     "format": "xml",
                 },
@@ -908,18 +901,12 @@ class FeedExportTest(FeedExportTestBase):
         self.assertIn(
             "feedexport/success_count/FileFeedStorage", crawler.stats.get_stats()
         )
-        self.assertIn(
-            "feedexport/success_count/S3FeedStorage", crawler.stats.get_stats()
-        )
         self.assertIn(
             "feedexport/success_count/StdoutFeedStorage", crawler.stats.get_stats()
         )
         self.assertEqual(
             crawler.stats.get_value("feedexport/success_count/FileFeedStorage"), 1
         )
-        self.assertEqual(
-            crawler.stats.get_value("feedexport/success_count/S3FeedStorage"), 1
-        )
         self.assertEqual(
             crawler.stats.get_value("feedexport/success_count/StdoutFeedStorage"), 1
         )
@@ -2535,7 +2522,6 @@ class BatchDeliveriesTest(FeedExportTestBase):
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def test_s3_export(self):
         skip_if_no_boto()
-
         bucket = "mybucket"
         items = [
             self.MyItem({"foo": "bar1", "egg": "spam1"}),
@@ -2707,6 +2693,9 @@ class S3FeedStoragePreFeedOptionsTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     maxDiff = None
 
+    def setUp(self):
+        skip_if_no_boto()
+
     def test_init(self):
         settings_dict = {
             "FEED_URI": "file:///tmp/foobar",
diff --git a/tests/test_pipeline_files.py b/tests/test_pipeline_files.py
index 9701e5d4e..e0bcfcfea 100644
--- a/tests/test_pipeline_files.py
+++ b/tests/test_pipeline_files.py
@@ -225,12 +225,16 @@ class FilesPipelineTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
 
 class FilesPipelineTestCaseFieldsMixin:
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.tempdir = mkdtemp()
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        rmtree(self.tempdir)
+
     def test_item_fields_default(self):
         url = "http://www.example.com/files/1.txt"
         item = self.item_class(name="item1", file_urls=[url])
-        pipeline = FilesPipeline.from_settings(
-            Settings({"FILES_STORE": "s3://example/files/"})
-        )
+        pipeline = FilesPipeline.from_settings(Settings({"FILES_STORE": self.tempdir}))
         requests = list(pipeline.get_media_requests(item, None))
         self.assertEqual(requests[0].url, url)
         results = [(True, {"url": url})]
@@ -245,7 +249,7 @@ class FilesPipelineTestCaseFieldsMixin:
         pipeline = FilesPipeline.from_settings(
             Settings(
                 {
-                    "FILES_STORE": "s3://example/files/",
+                    "FILES_STORE": self.tempdir,
                     "FILES_URLS_FIELD": "custom_file_urls",
                     "FILES_RESULT_FIELD": "custom_files",
                 }
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 5a9d9cf29..5c2f583d9 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@ deps =
     mitmproxy >= 4.0.4, < 8; python_version < '3.9' and implementation_name != 'pypy'
     # newer markupsafe is incompatible with deps of old mitmproxy (which we get on Python 3.7 and lower)
     markupsafe < 2.1.0; python_version < '3.8' and implementation_name != 'pypy'
-    # Extras
-    botocore>=1.4.87
 passenv =
     S3_TEST_FILE_URI
     AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
@@ -121,7 +119,7 @@ setenv =
 basepython = python3
 deps =
     {[testenv]deps}
-    boto
+    botocore>=1.4.87
     google-cloud-storage
     # Twisted[http2] currently forces old mitmproxy because of h2 version
     # restrictions in their deps, so we need to pin old markupsafe here too.