diff --git a/plugin/trino-redshift/pom.xml b/plugin/trino-redshift/pom.xml
index b62cc3ffb013..bae2bc91858d 100644
--- a/plugin/trino-redshift/pom.xml
+++ b/plugin/trino-redshift/pom.xml
@@ -208,6 +208,7 @@
                                 <exclude>**/TestRedshiftTableStatisticsReader.java</exclude>
                                 <exclude>**/TestRedshiftTypeMapping.java</exclude>
                                 <exclude>**/Test*FailureRecoveryTest.java</exclude>
+                                <exclude>**/Test*FailureRecoverySmokeTest.java</exclude>
                             </excludes>
                         </configuration>
                     </plugin>
@@ -251,7 +252,10 @@
                             <!-- Failure recovery tests spend most of the time waiting for a retry -->
                             <threadCount>4</threadCount>
                             <includes>
-                                <include>**/Test*FailureRecoveryTest.java</include>
+                                <!-- Run only the smoke tests of the connector for the fault-tolerant execution functionality -->
+                                <!-- on the CI environment due to unpredictable locations of GitHub runners which can lead -->
+                                <!-- to increased client latency on the JDBC operations performed on the ephemeral AWS Redshift cluster.  -->
+                                <include>**/Test*FailureRecoverySmokeTest.java</include>
                             </includes>
                         </configuration>
                     </plugin>
diff --git a/plugin/trino-redshift/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/redshift/TestRedshiftQueryFailureRecoverySmokeTest.java b/plugin/trino-redshift/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/redshift/TestRedshiftQueryFailureRecoverySmokeTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a71ca7450c4e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugin/trino-redshift/src/test/java/io/trino/plugin/redshift/TestRedshiftQueryFailureRecoverySmokeTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package io.trino.plugin.redshift;
+
+import io.trino.operator.RetryPolicy;
+import org.testng.annotations.DataProvider;
+
+import java.util.Optional;
+
+import static io.trino.execution.FailureInjector.InjectedFailureType.TASK_GET_RESULTS_REQUEST_FAILURE;
+
+public class TestRedshiftQueryFailureRecoverySmokeTest
+        extends BaseRedshiftFailureRecoveryTest
+{
+    public TestRedshiftQueryFailureRecoverySmokeTest()
+    {
+        super(RetryPolicy.QUERY);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    @DataProvider(name = "parallelTests", parallel = true)
+    public Object[][] parallelTests()
+    {
+        // Skip the regular FTE tests to execute the smoke test faster
+        return new Object[][] {
+                parallelTest("testCreateTableAsSelect", this::testCreateTableAsSelect),
+        };
+    }
+
+    private void testCreateTableAsSelect()
+    {
+        assertThatQuery("CREATE TABLE <table> AS SELECT * FROM orders")
+                .withCleanupQuery(Optional.of("DROP TABLE <table>"))
+                .experiencing(TASK_GET_RESULTS_REQUEST_FAILURE)
+                .at(boundaryDistributedStage())
+                .failsWithoutRetries(failure -> failure.hasMessageFindingMatch("Error 500 Internal Server Error|Error closing remote buffer, expected 204 got 500"))
+                .finishesSuccessfully()
+                .cleansUpTemporaryTables();
+    }
+}