diff --git a/lib/shared/s3-packages.js b/lib/shared/s3-packages.js
index 7fe8f24e..6d770e13 100644
--- a/lib/shared/s3-packages.js
+++ b/lib/shared/s3-packages.js
@@ -152,6 +152,8 @@ exports.getRemoteVersions = _.memoize((bucketUrl) => {
       code: 'ECONNRESET'
     }, {
       code: 'ECONNREFUSED'
+    }, {
+      code: 'EACCES'
     }, {
       code: 'ETIMEDOUT'
     }, () => {
diff --git a/tests/shared/s3-packages.spec.js b/tests/shared/s3-packages.spec.js
index 3aeedd55..0bbe6f6a 100644
--- a/tests/shared/s3-packages.spec.js
+++ b/tests/shared/s3-packages.spec.js
@@ -689,6 +689,29 @@ describe('Shared: s3Packages', function() {
 
     });
 
+    describe('given EACCES', function() {
+
+      beforeEach(function() {
+        const error = new Error('EACCES');
+        error.code = 'EACCES';
+
+        this.requestGetAsyncStub = m.sinon.stub(request, 'getAsync');
+        this.requestGetAsyncStub.returns(Bluebird.reject(error));
+      });
+
+      afterEach(function() {
+        this.requestGetAsyncStub.restore();
+      });
+
+      it('should resolve an empty array', function(done) {
+        s3Packages.getRemoteVersions(s3Packages.BUCKET_URL.PRODUCTION).then((versions) => {
+          m.chai.expect(versions).to.deep.equal([]);
+          done();
+        }).catch(done);
+      });
+
+    });
+
   });
 
   describe('.getLatestVersion()', function() {