diff --git a/postgres-appliance/scripts/configure_spilo.py b/postgres-appliance/scripts/configure_spilo.py
index fa2f3ca9..970ba7b7 100755
--- a/postgres-appliance/scripts/configure_spilo.py
+++ b/postgres-appliance/scripts/configure_spilo.py
@@ -787,6 +787,9 @@ def write_log_environment(placeholders):
     if not os.path.exists(log_env['LOG_ENV_DIR']):
         os.makedirs(log_env['LOG_ENV_DIR'])
 
+    tags = json.loads(os.getenv('LOG_S3_TAGS'))
+    log_env['LOG_S3_TAGS'] = "&".join(f"{key}={os.getenv(value)}" for key, value in tags.items())
+
     for var in ('LOG_TMPDIR',
                 'LOG_SHIP_HOURLY',
                 'LOG_AWS_REGION',
diff --git a/postgres-appliance/scripts/upload_pg_log_to_s3.py b/postgres-appliance/scripts/upload_pg_log_to_s3.py
index 39966c35..8f7df9d8 100755
--- a/postgres-appliance/scripts/upload_pg_log_to_s3.py
+++ b/postgres-appliance/scripts/upload_pg_log_to_s3.py
@@ -63,11 +63,9 @@ def upload_to_s3(local_file_path):
 
     chunk_size = 52428800  # 50 MiB
     config = TransferConfig(multipart_threshold=chunk_size, multipart_chunksize=chunk_size)
-    tags = eval(os.getenv('LOG_S3_TAGS'))
-    s3_tags_str = "&".join(f"{key}={os.getenv(value)}" for key, value in tags.items())
 
     try:
-        bucket.upload_file(local_file_path, key_name, Config=config, ExtraArgs={'Tagging': s3_tags_str})
+        bucket.upload_file(local_file_path, key_name, Config=config, ExtraArgs={'Tagging': os.getenv('LOG_S3_TAGS')})
     except S3UploadFailedError as e:
         logger.exception('Failed to upload the %s to the bucket %s under the key %s. Exception: %r',
                          local_file_path, bucket_name, key_name, e)