diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java
index 9a61777484a2d3..a510eaa309422a 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java
@@ -5475,7 +5475,11 @@ public boolean hasPathCapability(final Path path, final String capability)
     case CommonPathCapabilities.ETAGS_AVAILABLE:
       return true;
 
-       /*
+    // Is prefetching enabled?
+    case PREFETCH_ENABLED_KEY:
+      return prefetchEnabled;
+
+    /*
      * Marker policy capabilities are handed off.
      */
     case STORE_CAPABILITY_DIRECTORY_MARKER_POLICY_KEEP:
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/InternalConstants.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/InternalConstants.java
index 969a8bc560337a..646e232b433519 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/InternalConstants.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/InternalConstants.java
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Constants.FIPS_ENDPOINT;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Constants.FS_S3A_CREATE_PERFORMANCE;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Constants.FS_S3A_CREATE_PERFORMANCE_ENABLED;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Constants.PREFETCH_ENABLED_KEY;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Constants.STORE_CAPABILITY_AWS_V2;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.impl.S3ExpressStorage.STORE_CAPABILITY_S3_EXPRESS_STORAGE;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Constants.STORE_CAPABILITY_DIRECTORY_MARKER_ACTION_DELETE;
@@ -289,7 +290,9 @@ private InternalConstants() {
           STORE_CAPABILITY_S3_EXPRESS_STORAGE,
           FS_S3A_CREATE_PERFORMANCE_ENABLED,
           DIRECTORY_OPERATIONS_PURGE_UPLOADS,
-          ENABLE_MULTI_DELETE));
+          ENABLE_MULTI_DELETE,
+          PREFETCH_ENABLED_KEY
+          ));
 
   /**
    * AWS V4 Auth Scheme to use when creating signers: {@value}.
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/prefetch/S3ARemoteInputStream.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/prefetch/S3ARemoteInputStream.java
index afeb18c2db0df3..cecdc24a0f26f1 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/prefetch/S3ARemoteInputStream.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/prefetch/S3ARemoteInputStream.java
@@ -290,12 +290,18 @@ public void seek(long pos) throws IOException {
   public int read() throws IOException {
     throwIfClosed();
 
-    if (remoteObject.size() == 0
-        || nextReadPos >= remoteObject.size()) {
+    if (remoteObject.size() == 0) {
+      LOG.debug("Rejecting read on empty file");
+      return -1;
+    }
+
+    if (nextReadPos >= remoteObject.size()) {
+      LOG.debug("Rejecting read past EOF");
       return -1;
     }
 
     if (!ensureCurrentBuffer()) {
+      LOG.debug("Empty buffer in cache");
       return -1;
     }
 
@@ -338,12 +344,18 @@ public int read(byte[] buffer, int offset, int len) throws IOException {
       return 0;
     }
 
-    if (remoteObject.size() == 0
-        || nextReadPos >= remoteObject.size()) {
+    if (remoteObject.size() == 0) {
+      LOG.debug("Rejecting read on empty file");
+      return -1;
+    }
+
+    if (nextReadPos >= remoteObject.size()) {
+      LOG.debug("Rejecting read past EOF");
       return -1;
     }
 
     if (!ensureCurrentBuffer()) {
+      LOG.debug("Empty buffer in cache");
       return -1;
     }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/prefetch/S3ARemoteObjectReader.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/prefetch/S3ARemoteObjectReader.java
index 69d5ce7aee1fa8..85b2021ad3d213 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/prefetch/S3ARemoteObjectReader.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/prefetch/S3ARemoteObjectReader.java
@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@
 import java.io.Closeable;
 import java.io.EOFException;
 import java.io.IOException;
-import java.net.SocketTimeoutException;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.impl.prefetch.Validate;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.HttpChannelEOFException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Invoker;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.statistics.S3AInputStreamStatistics;
 
@@ -117,11 +117,12 @@ private int readOneBlockWithRetries(ByteBuffer buffer, long offset, int size)
                 STREAM_READ_REMOTE_BLOCK_READ, () -> {
                   try {
                     this.readOneBlock(buffer, offset, size);
+                  } catch (HttpChannelEOFException e) {
+                    this.remoteObject.getStatistics().readException();
+                    throw e;
                   } catch (EOFException e) {
                     // the base implementation swallows EOFs.
                     return -1;
-                  } catch (SocketTimeoutException e) {
-                    throw e;
                   } catch (IOException e) {
                     this.remoteObject.getStatistics().readException();
                     throw e;
@@ -168,7 +169,7 @@ private void readOneBlock(ByteBuffer buffer, long offset, int size)
           String message = String.format(
               "Unexpected end of stream: buffer[%d], readSize = %d, numRemainingBytes = %d",
               buffer.capacity(), readSize, numRemainingBytes);
-          throw new EOFException(message);
+          throw new HttpChannelEOFException(remoteObject.getPath(), message, null);
         }
 
         if (numBytes > 0) {
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/performance/ITestS3AOpenCost.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/performance/ITestS3AOpenCost.java
index 482a963b92ab49..a9d79400c864c4 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/performance/ITestS3AOpenCost.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/performance/ITestS3AOpenCost.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 
 
 import java.io.EOFException;
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.util.Arrays;
@@ -40,6 +41,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.S3AInputStream;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.S3ATestUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Statistic;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.prefetch.S3APrefetchingInputStream;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.statistics.IOStatistics;
 
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.Options.OpenFileOptions.FS_OPTION_OPENFILE_READ_POLICY;