diff --git a/rust/lance-io/src/object_store.rs b/rust/lance-io/src/object_store.rs
index b4fd2ed200..c0a0da530f 100644
--- a/rust/lance-io/src/object_store.rs
+++ b/rust/lance-io/src/object_store.rs
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ use tokio::sync::RwLock;
 use url::Url;
 
 use super::local::LocalObjectReader;
+mod options;
 mod tracing;
 use self::tracing::ObjectStoreTracingExt;
 use crate::{object_reader::CloudObjectReader, object_writer::ObjectWriter, traits::Reader};
diff --git a/rust/lance-io/src/object_store/options.rs b/rust/lance-io/src/object_store/options.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..70094e1dda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rust/lance-io/src/object_store/options.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright The Lance Authors
+
+// Inspired by AmazonS3ConfigKey and friends from object-store
+
+use std::str::FromStr;
+
+/// Configuration keys for Lance Object Store
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Hash)]
+enum LanceStorageOption {
+    /// Whether to use to use the same size for all parts in a multipart upload.
+    /// By default, this is false, unless `ENDPOINT_URL` is set to a Cloudflare
+    /// R2 endpoint.
+    UseConstantSizeUploadParts,
+    /// Whether it is safe to assume that list operations return results in
+    /// lexicographical order. This is used for optimizing discover of the
+    /// latest manifest.
+    ListIsLexigraphicallySorted,
+    /// The number of IO operations to perform in parallel.
+    IoParallelism,
+}
+
+impl AsRef<str> for LanceStorageOption {
+    fn as_ref(&self) -> &str {
+        match self {
+            Self::UseConstantSizeUploadParts => "lance_use_constant_size_upload_parts",
+            Self::ListIsLexigraphicallySorted => "lance_list_is_lexigraphically_sorted",
+            Self::IoParallelism => "lance_io_parallelism",
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl FromStr for LanceStorageOption {
+    type Err = ();
+
+    fn from_str(s: &str) -> Result<Self, ()> {
+        match s {
+            "lance_use_constant_size_upload_parts" => Ok(Self::UseConstantSizeUploadParts),
+            "lance_list_is_lexigraphically_sorted" => Ok(Self::ListIsLexigraphicallySorted),
+            "lance_io_parallelism" => Ok(Self::IoParallelism),
+            _ => Err(()),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+fn extract_lance_storage_options<'a>(
+    options: impl IntoIterator<Item = (&'a str, &'a str)> + 'a,
+) -> impl Iterator<Item = (LanceStorageOption, &'a str)> + 'a {
+    options.into_iter().filter_map(|(key, value)| {
+        let key = key.parse().ok()?;
+        Some((key, value))
+    })
+}
+
+#[derive(Default, Debug)]
+pub struct LanceStorageConfig {
+    use_constant_size_upload_parts: Option<bool>,
+    list_is_lexigraphically_sorted: Option<bool>,
+    io_parallelism: Option<usize>,
+}
+
+impl LanceStorageConfig {
+    fn with_config(&mut self, key: LanceStorageOption, value: &str) {
+        match key {
+            LanceStorageOption::UseConstantSizeUploadParts => {
+                self.use_constant_size_upload_parts = Some(value.parse().unwrap());
+            }
+            LanceStorageOption::ListIsLexigraphicallySorted => {
+                self.list_is_lexigraphically_sorted = Some(value.parse().unwrap());
+            }
+            LanceStorageOption::IoParallelism => {
+                self.io_parallelism = Some(value.parse().unwrap());
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn infer_lance_storage_options<'a>(
+    options: impl IntoIterator<Item = (&'a str, &'a str)> + 'a,
+) -> LanceStorageConfig {
+    let mut config = LanceStorageConfig::default();
+
+    for (os_key, os_value) in std::env::vars_os() {
+        if let (Some(key), Some(value)) = (os_key.to_str(), os_value.to_str()) {
+            if key.starts_with("LANCE_") {
+                if let Ok(config_key) = key.to_ascii_lowercase().parse() {
+                    config.with_config(config_key, value);
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    for (key, value) in extract_lance_storage_options(options) {
+        config.with_config(key, value);
+    }
+
+    config
+}