diff --git a/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/aws/s3/reader_tool.py b/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/aws/s3/reader_tool.py
index 356fcc42e..f54733012 100644
--- a/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/aws/s3/reader_tool.py
+++ b/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/aws/s3/reader_tool.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+from contextlib import suppress
 import os
 
 from crewai.tools import BaseTool
@@ -38,8 +39,13 @@ class S3ReaderTool(BaseTool):
             )
 
             response = s3.get_object(Bucket=bucket_name, Key=object_key)
-            result: str = response["Body"].read().decode("utf-8")
-            return result
+            body = response["Body"]
+            try:
+                result: str = body.read().decode("utf-8")
+                return result
+            finally:
+                with suppress(Exception):
+                    body.close()
 
         except ClientError as e:
             return f"Error reading file from S3: {e!s}"
diff --git a/lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_s3_reader_tool.py b/lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_s3_reader_tool.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1355e4f14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/crewai-tools/tests/tools/test_s3_reader_tool.py
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+"""Tests for the S3 reader tool."""
+
+import sys
+from types import ModuleType
+from unittest.mock import Mock, patch
+
+import pytest
+
+from crewai_tools.aws.s3.reader_tool import S3ReaderTool
+
+
+def _boto_modules(client: Mock) -> dict[str, ModuleType]:
+    """Build minimal boto modules for exercising the lazy imports."""
+    boto3 = ModuleType("boto3")
+    boto3.client = Mock(return_value=client)  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+
+    botocore = ModuleType("botocore")
+    exceptions = ModuleType("botocore.exceptions")
+
+    class ClientError(Exception):
+        pass
+
+    exceptions.ClientError = ClientError  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+    botocore.exceptions = exceptions  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+    return {
+        "boto3": boto3,
+        "botocore": botocore,
+        "botocore.exceptions": exceptions,
+    }
+
+
+def test_s3_reader_closes_response_body() -> None:
+    """Release the streaming response after a successful read."""
+    body = Mock()
+    body.read.return_value = b"hello"
+    client = Mock()
+    client.get_object.return_value = {"Body": body}
+
+    with patch.dict(sys.modules, _boto_modules(client)):
+        result = S3ReaderTool()._run("s3://bucket/key.txt")
+
+    assert result == "hello"
+    body.close.assert_called_once_with()
+
+
+def test_s3_reader_closes_response_body_after_decode_error() -> None:
+    """Release the streaming response when UTF-8 decoding fails."""
+    body = Mock()
+    body.read.return_value = b"\xff"
+    client = Mock()
+    client.get_object.return_value = {"Body": body}
+
+    with (
+        patch.dict(sys.modules, _boto_modules(client)),
+        pytest.raises(UnicodeDecodeError),
+    ):
+        S3ReaderTool()._run("s3://bucket/key.txt")
+
+    body.close.assert_called_once_with()
+
+
+def test_s3_reader_closes_response_body_after_read_error() -> None:
+    """Release the streaming response when reading the body fails."""
+    body = Mock()
+    body.read.side_effect = OSError("connection reset")
+    client = Mock()
+    client.get_object.return_value = {"Body": body}
+
+    with (
+        patch.dict(sys.modules, _boto_modules(client)),
+        pytest.raises(OSError, match="connection reset"),
+    ):
+        S3ReaderTool()._run("s3://bucket/key.txt")
+
+    body.close.assert_called_once_with()
+
+
+def test_s3_reader_preserves_result_when_close_fails() -> None:
+    """Keep a successful read result when best-effort cleanup fails."""
+    body = Mock()
+    body.read.return_value = b"hello"
+    body.close.side_effect = OSError("close failed")
+    client = Mock()
+    client.get_object.return_value = {"Body": body}
+
+    with patch.dict(sys.modules, _boto_modules(client)):
+        result = S3ReaderTool()._run("s3://bucket/key.txt")
+
+    assert result == "hello"
+    body.close.assert_called_once_with()
+
+
+def test_s3_reader_preserves_read_error_when_close_fails() -> None:
+    """Keep the primary read error when best-effort cleanup also fails."""
+    body = Mock()
+    body.read.side_effect = OSError("connection reset")
+    body.close.side_effect = RuntimeError("close failed")
+    client = Mock()
+    client.get_object.return_value = {"Body": body}
+
+    with (
+        patch.dict(sys.modules, _boto_modules(client)),
+        pytest.raises(OSError, match="connection reset"),
+    ):
+        S3ReaderTool()._run("s3://bucket/key.txt")
+
+    body.close.assert_called_once_with()