diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index fab4c64d0e..6dcf6803dc 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -218,6 +218,9 @@ mast
 - Added function ``mast.Observations.get_unique_product_list`` to return the unique data products associated with
   given observations. [#3096]
 
+- Deprecated ``enable_cloud_dataset`` and ``disable_cloud_dataset`` in classes where they
+  are non-operational. They will be removed in a future release. [#3113]
+
 mpc
 ^^^
 
diff --git a/astroquery/mast/core.py b/astroquery/mast/core.py
index 712579a383..a937c7f9b2 100644
--- a/astroquery/mast/core.py
+++ b/astroquery/mast/core.py
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
 
 This the base class for MAST queries.
 """
+from astropy.utils import deprecated
 from ..query import QueryWithLogin
 from . import utils
 from .auth import MastAuth
-from .cloud import CloudAccess
 from .discovery_portal import PortalAPI
 from .services import ServiceAPI
 
@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ def logout(self):
         self._auth_obj.logout()
         self._authenticated = False
 
+    @deprecated(since='v0.4.8',
+                message=('This function is non-operational and will be removed in a future release.'))
     def enable_cloud_dataset(self, provider="AWS", profile=None, verbose=True):
         """
         Enable downloading public files from S3 instead of MAST.
@@ -98,14 +100,15 @@ def enable_cloud_dataset(self, provider="AWS", profile=None, verbose=True):
             Default True.
             Logger to display extra info and warning.
         """
+        pass
 
-        self._cloud_connection = CloudAccess(provider, profile, verbose)
-
+    @deprecated(since='v0.4.8',
+                message=('This function is non-operational and will be removed in a future release.'))
     def disable_cloud_dataset(self):
         """
-        Disables downloading public files from S3 instead of MAST
+        Disables downloading public files from S3 instead of MAST.
         """
-        self._cloud_connection = None
+        pass
 
     def resolve_object(self, objectname):
         """
diff --git a/astroquery/mast/observations.py b/astroquery/mast/observations.py
index a1f4ba8a2e..a0e595c6ba 100644
--- a/astroquery/mast/observations.py
+++ b/astroquery/mast/observations.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 from astropy.table import Table, Row, unique, vstack
 from astroquery import log
+from astroquery.mast.cloud import CloudAccess
 
 from ..utils import commons, async_to_sync
 from ..utils.class_or_instance import class_or_instance
@@ -171,6 +172,30 @@ def _parse_caom_criteria(self, **criteria):
 
         return position, mashup_filters
 
+    def enable_cloud_dataset(self, provider="AWS", profile=None, verbose=True):
+        """
+        Enable downloading public files from S3 instead of MAST.
+        Requires the boto3 library to function.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        provider : str
+            Which cloud data provider to use.  We may in the future support multiple providers,
+            though at the moment this argument is ignored.
+        profile : str
+            Profile to use to identify yourself to the cloud provider (usually in ~/.aws/config).
+        verbose : bool
+            Default True.
+            Logger to display extra info and warning.
+        """
+        self._cloud_connection = CloudAccess(provider, profile, verbose)
+
+    def disable_cloud_dataset(self):
+        """
+        Disables downloading public files from S3 instead of MAST.
+        """
+        self._cloud_connection = None
+
     @class_or_instance
     def query_region_async(self, coordinates, *, radius=0.2*u.deg, pagesize=None, page=None):
         """
diff --git a/astroquery/mast/tests/test_mast_remote.py b/astroquery/mast/tests/test_mast_remote.py
index 0316179e70..911d778628 100644
--- a/astroquery/mast/tests/test_mast_remote.py
+++ b/astroquery/mast/tests/test_mast_remote.py
@@ -499,11 +499,8 @@ def test_observations_get_cloud_uris_no_duplicates(self, msa_product_table):
         # enable access to public AWS S3 bucket
         Observations.enable_cloud_dataset(provider='AWS')
 
-        # Check for cloud URIs.  Accept a NoResultsWarning if AWS S3
-        # doesn't have the file.  It doesn't matter as we're only checking
-        # that the duplicate products have been culled to a single one.
-        with pytest.warns(NoResultsWarning):
-            uris = Observations.get_cloud_uris(products)
+        # Check that only one URI is returned
+        uris = Observations.get_cloud_uris(products)
         assert len(uris) == 1
 
     def test_observations_download_file(self, tmp_path):