diff --git a/pandas/core/generic.py b/pandas/core/generic.py
index 8089fc58db07d..86e30024c51b1 100644
--- a/pandas/core/generic.py
+++ b/pandas/core/generic.py
@@ -2132,7 +2132,11 @@ def _repr_data_resource_(self):
     # I/O Methods
 
     @final
-    @doc(klass="object", storage_options=_shared_docs["storage_options"])
+    @doc(
+        klass="object",
+        storage_options=_shared_docs["storage_options"],
+        storage_options_versionadded="1.2.0",
+    )
     def to_excel(
         self,
         excel_writer,
@@ -2218,7 +2222,7 @@ def to_excel(
             is to be frozen.
         {storage_options}
 
-            .. versionadded:: 1.2.0
+            .. versionadded:: {storage_options_versionadded}
 
         See Also
         --------
diff --git a/pandas/io/formats/style.py b/pandas/io/formats/style.py
index 10b607da45ca8..4c143733ac77e 100644
--- a/pandas/io/formats/style.py
+++ b/pandas/io/formats/style.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
     Level,
     QuantileInterpolation,
     Scalar,
+    StorageOptions,
     WriteBuffer,
 )
 from pandas.compat._optional import import_optional_dependency
@@ -549,6 +550,7 @@ def set_tooltips(
         NDFrame.to_excel,
         klass="Styler",
         storage_options=_shared_docs["storage_options"],
+        storage_options_versionadded="1.5.0",
     )
     def to_excel(
         self,
@@ -568,6 +570,7 @@ def to_excel(
         inf_rep: str = "inf",
         verbose: bool = True,
         freeze_panes: tuple[int, int] | None = None,
+        storage_options: StorageOptions = None,
     ) -> None:
 
         from pandas.io.formats.excel import ExcelFormatter
@@ -590,6 +593,7 @@ def to_excel(
             startcol=startcol,
             freeze_panes=freeze_panes,
             engine=engine,
+            storage_options=storage_options,
         )
 
     @overload
diff --git a/pandas/tests/io/excel/test_style.py b/pandas/tests/io/excel/test_style.py
index 9bbe61c90d973..00f6ccb96a905 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/io/excel/test_style.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/io/excel/test_style.py
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
 import contextlib
+import time
 
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
-from pandas import DataFrame
+import pandas.util._test_decorators as td
+
+from pandas import (
+    DataFrame,
+    read_excel,
+)
 import pandas._testing as tm
 
 from pandas.io.excel import ExcelWriter
@@ -206,3 +212,27 @@ def custom_converter(css):
 
         with contextlib.closing(openpyxl.load_workbook(path)) as wb:
             assert wb["custom"].cell(2, 2).font.color.value == "00111222"
+
+
+@pytest.mark.single_cpu
+@td.skip_if_not_us_locale
+def test_styler_to_s3(s3_resource, s3so):
+    # GH#46381
+
+    mock_bucket_name, target_file = "pandas-test", "test.xlsx"
+    df = DataFrame({"x": [1, 2, 3], "y": [2, 4, 6]})
+    styler = df.style.set_sticky(axis="index")
+    styler.to_excel(f"s3://{mock_bucket_name}/{target_file}", storage_options=s3so)
+    timeout = 5
+    while True:
+        if target_file in (
+            obj.key for obj in s3_resource.Bucket("pandas-test").objects.all()
+        ):
+            break
+        time.sleep(0.1)
+        timeout -= 0.1
+        assert timeout > 0, "Timed out waiting for file to appear on moto"
+        result = read_excel(
+            f"s3://{mock_bucket_name}/{target_file}", index_col=0, storage_options=s3so
+        )
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(result, df)