diff --git a/http-clients/apache-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/http/apache/internal/impl/ApacheHttpRequestFactory.java b/http-clients/apache-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/http/apache/internal/impl/ApacheHttpRequestFactory.java
index 2f80c796ca09..5ae3c9fb0396 100644
--- a/http-clients/apache-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/http/apache/internal/impl/ApacheHttpRequestFactory.java
+++ b/http-clients/apache-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/http/apache/internal/impl/ApacheHttpRequestFactory.java
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ private void addRequestConfig(final HttpRequestBase base,
                 .setSocketTimeout(saturatedCast(requestConfig.socketTimeout().toMillis()))
                 .setLocalAddress(requestConfig.localAddress());
 
+        ApacheUtils.disableNormalizeUri(requestConfigBuilder);
+
         /*
          * Enable 100-continue support for PUT operations, since this is
          * where we're potentially uploading large amounts of data and want
diff --git a/http-clients/apache-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/http/apache/internal/utils/ApacheUtils.java b/http-clients/apache-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/http/apache/internal/utils/ApacheUtils.java
index 7b42eb6820db..ba7feb313a48 100644
--- a/http-clients/apache-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/http/apache/internal/utils/ApacheUtils.java
+++ b/http-clients/apache-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/http/apache/internal/utils/ApacheUtils.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 import org.apache.http.auth.NTCredentials;
 import org.apache.http.client.AuthCache;
 import org.apache.http.client.CredentialsProvider;
+import org.apache.http.client.config.RequestConfig;
 import org.apache.http.client.protocol.HttpClientContext;
 import org.apache.http.entity.BufferedHttpEntity;
 import org.apache.http.impl.auth.BasicScheme;
@@ -59,10 +60,36 @@ public static HttpEntity newBufferedHttpEntity(HttpEntity entity) {
     public static HttpClientContext newClientContext(ProxyConfiguration proxyConfiguration) {
         HttpClientContext clientContext = new HttpClientContext();
         addPreemptiveAuthenticationProxy(clientContext, proxyConfiguration);
+
+        RequestConfig.Builder builder = RequestConfig.custom();
+        disableNormalizeUri(builder);
+
+        clientContext.setRequestConfig(builder.build());
         return clientContext;
 
     }
 
+    /**
+     * From Apache v4.5.8, normalization should be disabled or AWS requests with special characters in URI path will fail
+     * with Signature Errors.
+     * <p>
+     *    setNormalizeUri is added only in 4.5.8, so customers using the latest version of SDK with old versions (4.5.6 or less)
+     *    of Apache httpclient will see NoSuchMethodError. Hence this method will suppress the error.
+     *
+     *    Do not use Apache version 4.5.7 as it breaks URI paths with special characters and there is no option
+     *    to disable normalization.
+     * </p>
+     *
+     * For more information, See https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java/issues/1919
+     */
+    public static void disableNormalizeUri(RequestConfig.Builder requestConfigBuilder) {
+        try {
+            requestConfigBuilder.setNormalizeUri(false);
+        } catch (NoSuchMethodError error) {
+            // setNormalizeUri method was added in httpclient 4.5.8
+        }
+    }
+
     /**
      * Returns a new Credentials Provider for use with proxy authentication.
      */
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f616c3d2255e..7fb6a7d1b972 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
         <aspectj.version>1.8.2</aspectj.version>
 
         <jre.version>1.8</jre.version>
-        <httpcomponents.httpclient.version>4.5.6</httpcomponents.httpclient.version>
+        <httpcomponents.httpclient.version>4.5.8</httpcomponents.httpclient.version>
         <httpcomponents.httpcore.version>4.4.10</httpcomponents.httpcore.version>
 
         <!-- These properties are used by cucumber tests related code -->
diff --git a/services/s3/src/it/java/software/amazon/awssdk/services/s3/S3ListObjectsV2IntegrationTest.java b/services/s3/src/it/java/software/amazon/awssdk/services/s3/S3ListObjectsV2IntegrationTest.java
index d429f9f6d877..761dd0a201e5 100644
--- a/services/s3/src/it/java/software/amazon/awssdk/services/s3/S3ListObjectsV2IntegrationTest.java
+++ b/services/s3/src/it/java/software/amazon/awssdk/services/s3/S3ListObjectsV2IntegrationTest.java
@@ -89,8 +89,9 @@ public static void createResources() throws Exception {
             createKey("key-" + numberFormatter.format(i));
         }
         createKey("aaaaa");
-        createKey("aaaaa/aaaaa");
         createKey("aaaaa/aaaaa/aaaaa");
+        createKey("aaaaa/aaaaa+a");
+        createKey("aaaaa/aaaaa//aaaaa");
         createKey(KEY_NAME_WITH_SPECIAL_CHARS);
     }