diff --git a/.github/actions/setup-rust-runtime/action.yaml b/.github/actions/setup-rust-runtime/action.yaml
index cd18be9890315..b6fb2c898bf2f 100644
--- a/.github/actions/setup-rust-runtime/action.yaml
+++ b/.github/actions/setup-rust-runtime/action.yaml
@@ -20,8 +20,10 @@ description: 'Setup Rust Runtime Environment'
 runs:
   using: "composite"
   steps:
-    - name: Run sccache-cache
-      uses: mozilla-actions/sccache-action@v0.0.4
+    # https://github.com/apache/datafusion/issues/15535
+    # disabled because neither version nor git hash works with apache github policy
+    #- name: Run sccache-cache
+    #  uses: mozilla-actions/sccache-action@65101d47ea8028ed0c98a1cdea8dd9182e9b5133 # v0.0.8
     - name: Configure runtime env
       shell: bash
       # do not produce debug symbols to keep memory usage down
@@ -30,9 +32,11 @@ runs:
       # 
       # Set debuginfo=line-tables-only as debuginfo=0 causes immensely slow build
       # See for more details: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/119560
+      #
+      # readd the following to the run below once sccache-cache is re-enabled
+      # echo "RUSTC_WRAPPER=sccache" >> $GITHUB_ENV
+      # echo "SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV
       run: |
-        echo "RUSTC_WRAPPER=sccache" >> $GITHUB_ENV  
-        echo "SCCACHE_GHA_ENABLED=true" >> $GITHUB_ENV 
         echo "RUST_BACKTRACE=1" >> $GITHUB_ENV
         echo "RUSTFLAGS=-C debuginfo=line-tables-only -C incremental=false" >> $GITHUB_ENV