diff --git a/ci/buildkite-snap.yml b/ci/buildkite-snap.yml
index 81f278cc23..3ac1e4de9a 100644
--- a/ci/buildkite-snap.yml
+++ b/ci/buildkite-snap.yml
@@ -11,3 +11,6 @@ steps:
   - command: "ci/publish-bpf-sdk.sh"
     timeout_in_minutes: 5
     name: "publish bpf sdk"
+  - command: "ci/publish-solana-tar.sh"
+    timeout_in_minutes: 15
+    name: "publish solana release tar"
diff --git a/ci/publish-solana-tar.sh b/ci/publish-solana-tar.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..9296094990
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/publish-solana-tar.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#!/bin/bash -e
+
+cd "$(dirname "$0")/.."
+
+DRYRUN=
+if [[ -z $BUILDKITE_BRANCH ]]; then
+  DRYRUN="echo"
+fi
+
+eval "$(ci/channel-info.sh)"
+
+if [[ $BUILDKITE_BRANCH = "$STABLE_CHANNEL" ]]; then
+  CHANNEL=stable
+elif [[ $BUILDKITE_BRANCH = "$EDGE_CHANNEL" ]]; then
+  CHANNEL=edge
+elif [[ $BUILDKITE_BRANCH = "$BETA_CHANNEL" ]]; then
+  CHANNEL=beta
+fi
+
+if [[ -z $CHANNEL ]]; then
+  echo Unable to determine channel to publish into, exiting.
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+echo --- Creating tarball
+if [[ -z $DRYRUN ]]; then
+(
+  set -x
+  rm -rf solana-release/
+  mkdir solana-release/
+  (
+    echo "$CHANNEL"
+    git rev-parse HEAD
+  ) > solana-release/version.txt
+
+  cargo install --features=cuda --root solana-release
+  ./scripts/install-native-programs.sh solana-release
+
+  tar jvcf solana-release.tar.bz2 solana-release/
+)
+fi
+
+
+echo --- AWS S3 Store
+
+set -x
+if [[ ! -r s3cmd-2.0.1/s3cmd ]]; then
+  rm -rf s3cmd-2.0.1.tar.gz s3cmd-2.0.1
+  $DRYRUN wget https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd/releases/download/v2.0.1/s3cmd-2.0.1.tar.gz
+  $DRYRUN tar zxf s3cmd-2.0.1.tar.gz
+fi
+
+$DRYRUN python ./s3cmd-2.0.1/s3cmd --acl-public put solana-release.tar.bz2 \
+  s3://solana-release/"$CHANNEL"/solana-release.tar.bz2
+
+exit 0
+