diff --git a/recommender/__init__.py b/recommender/__init__.py
index 40dad5f..31462d1 100644
--- a/recommender/__init__.py
+++ b/recommender/__init__.py
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 # which is not loaded when running `manage.py` commands (which is used by `make compile_translations`)
 # from .recommender import RecommenderXBlock
 
-__version__ = '2.1.0'
+__version__ = '2.1.1'
diff --git a/recommender/recommender.py b/recommender/recommender.py
index d1e2ad2..f4ce74c 100644
--- a/recommender/recommender.py
+++ b/recommender/recommender.py
@@ -285,7 +285,10 @@ def _get_onetime_url(self, filename):
         We benchmarked this as less than 8ms on a sandbox machine.
         """
         if filename.startswith('fs://'):
-            return str(self.fs.get_url(filename.replace('fs://', ''), 1000 * 60 * 60 * 10))
+            # 604800 seconds is the maximum allowed expiration by S3.
+            # If this is instead filesystem-backed, the timeout argument has
+            # no effect.
+            return str(self.fs.get_url(filename.replace('fs://', ''), 604800))
         else:
             return filename