diff --git a/scripts/travis_before_install.sh b/scripts/travis_before_install.sh
index b6c5339b2..0827f9843 100755
--- a/scripts/travis_before_install.sh
+++ b/scripts/travis_before_install.sh
@@ -20,4 +20,5 @@ elif [[ ${TRAVIS_OS_NAME} == "osx" ]]; then
     # install OS X dependencies
     #
     brew install autoconf automake libtool makedepend cmake pkg-config node git
+    sudo pip install awscli
 fi
diff --git a/setup-libraries.sh b/setup-libraries.sh
index 359e14e3d..609bc2409 100755
--- a/setup-libraries.sh
+++ b/setup-libraries.sh
@@ -63,6 +63,16 @@ cd ./osx/
 export CXX11=true
 
 if [ ${UNAME} = 'Darwin' ]; then
+
+if [ ! -z "${TRAVIS:-}" ]; then
+    if aws s3 cp s3://mapbox-gl-testing/dependencies/build-cpp11-libcpp-universal_${MP_HASH}.tar.gz ./out/ ; then
+        rm -rf out/build-cpp11-libcpp-universal
+        tar -xzf out/build-cpp11-libcpp-universal_${MP_HASH}.tar.gz
+    fi
+fi
+
+if test -z "${TRAVIS:-}" || ! test -d out/build-cpp11-libcpp-universal; then
+
 source iPhoneOS.sh
     if [ ! -f out/build-cpp11-libcpp-armv7-iphoneos/lib/libpng.a ] ; then ./scripts/build_png.sh ; fi
     if [ ! -f out/build-cpp11-libcpp-armv7-iphoneos/lib/libuv.a ] ; then ./scripts/build_libuv.sh ; fi
@@ -101,6 +111,13 @@ source MacOSX.sh
 
 ./scripts/make_universal.sh
 
+if [ ! -z "${TRAVIS:-}" ]; then
+    tar -zcf out/build-cpp11-libcpp-universal_${MP_HASH}.tar.gz out/build-cpp11-libcpp-universal
+    aws s3 cp out/build-cpp11-libcpp-universal_${MP_HASH}.tar.gz s3://mapbox-gl-testing/dependencies/
+fi
+
+fi
+
 cd ../../
 ./configure \
 --pkg-config-root=`pwd`/mapnik-packaging/osx/out/build-cpp11-libcpp-universal/lib/pkgconfig \