diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index caacf2eb37..fea7a41400 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 ### Added
 
 
+- Added LightningCLI support for config files on object stores ([#7521](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/7521))
+
+
 - Added argument `trainer.predict(ckpt_path)` ([#7430](https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/pytorch-lightning/pull/7430))
 
 
diff --git a/pytorch_lightning/utilities/cli.py b/pytorch_lightning/utilities/cli.py
index da6592ae66..5dccad4ab9 100644
--- a/pytorch_lightning/utilities/cli.py
+++ b/pytorch_lightning/utilities/cli.py
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ from pytorch_lightning.utilities.seed import seed_everything
 
 _JSONARGPARSE_AVAILABLE = _module_available("jsonargparse")
 if _JSONARGPARSE_AVAILABLE:
-    from jsonargparse import ActionConfigFile, ArgumentParser
+    from jsonargparse import ActionConfigFile, ArgumentParser, set_config_read_mode
+    set_config_read_mode(fsspec_enabled=True)
 else:
     ArgumentParser = object
 
diff --git a/requirements/extra.txt b/requirements/extra.txt
index db2e66540e..c41f464ef3 100644
--- a/requirements/extra.txt
+++ b/requirements/extra.txt
@@ -7,4 +7,4 @@ torchtext>=0.5
 # onnx>=1.7.0
 onnxruntime>=1.3.0
 hydra-core>=1.0
-jsonargparse[signatures]>=3.11.1
+jsonargparse[signatures]>=3.12.0