diff --git a/src/main/java/cloudgene/mapred/plugins/nextflow/NextflowTask.java b/src/main/java/cloudgene/mapred/plugins/nextflow/NextflowTask.java
index 8bc6ba79..eae8049c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/cloudgene/mapred/plugins/nextflow/NextflowTask.java
+++ b/src/main/java/cloudgene/mapred/plugins/nextflow/NextflowTask.java
@@ -1,15 +1,20 @@
 package cloudgene.mapred.plugins.nextflow;
 
+import java.io.DataInputStream;
 import java.io.File;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.util.Map;
 
 import cloudgene.mapred.jobs.CloudgeneContext;
+import cloudgene.sdk.internal.IExternalWorkspace;
 import genepi.io.FileUtil;
 import genepi.io.text.LineReader;
 
 public class NextflowTask {
 
+	private static final String CLOUDGENE_LOG = "cloudgene.log";
+
 	private int id;
 
 	private Map<String, Object> trace;
@@ -17,8 +22,8 @@ public class NextflowTask {
 	private String log = null;
 
 	private CloudgeneContext context;
-	
-	public NextflowTask( CloudgeneContext context, Map<String, Object> trace) {
+
+	public NextflowTask(CloudgeneContext context, Map<String, Object> trace) {
 		id = (Integer) trace.get("task_id");
 		this.trace = trace;
 		this.context = context;
@@ -33,21 +38,19 @@ public void update(Map<String, Object> trace) throws IOException {
 		String status = (String) trace.get("status");
 		if (status.equals("COMPLETED") || status.equals("FAILED")) {
 			String workDir = (String) trace.get("workdir");
-			String logFilename = FileUtil.path(workDir, "cloudgene.log");
-			// TODO: implement s3 support. How to handle other cloud providers?
-
-			if (new File(logFilename).exists()) {
-				log = FileUtil.readFileAsString(logFilename);
-				parseFile(logFilename);
-			}
-			
+			String logFilename = FileUtil.path(workDir, CLOUDGENE_LOG);
+			IExternalWorkspace workspace = context.getExternalWorkspace();
+			InputStream stream = workspace.download(logFilename);
+			log = FileUtil.readFileAsString(stream);
+			parseFile(logFilename);
 		}
 
 	}
 
 	private void parseFile(String logFilename) throws IOException {
-		LineReader reader = new LineReader(logFilename);
-		while(reader.next()) {
+
+		LineReader reader = new LineReader(new DataInputStream(context.getExternalWorkspace().download(logFilename)));
+		while (reader.next()) {
 			String line = reader.get();
 			if (line.startsWith("[INC]")) {
 				String[] tiles = line.split(" ", 3);
@@ -59,9 +62,9 @@ private void parseFile(String logFilename) throws IOException {
 				String[] tiles = line.split(" ", 2);
 				String name = tiles[1];
 				context.submitCounter(name);
-			}			
+			}
 		}
-		reader.close();		
+		reader.close();
 	}
 
 	public int getId() {