diff --git a/charts/workflow/values.yaml b/charts/workflow/values.yaml
index 2bb44afb8..79d2e53d1 100644
--- a/charts/workflow/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/workflow/values.yaml
@@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ s3:
   accesskey: ""
   # Your AWS secret key. Leave it empty if you want to use IAM credentials.
   secretkey: ""
+  # Enable SSE encryption (this must be disabled if you are not using AWS S3),
+  # since SSE support in boto2 is AWS-specific, it may be necessary to disable it.
+  #
+  # Valid values are:
+  # - true: only the database bucket is encrypted, non-AWS installations will fail
+  # - false: in database, WALE_S3_SSE will be set to false, SSE is not requested
+  use_sse: "true"
   # Any S3 region
   region: "us-west-1"
   # Your buckets.