diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/util/HadoopInputFile.java b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/util/HadoopInputFile.java
index 48c79fa5eb..8d1199d192 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/util/HadoopInputFile.java
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/util/HadoopInputFile.java
@@ -19,8 +19,13 @@
 
 package org.apache.parquet.hadoop.util;
 
+import static org.apache.parquet.hadoop.util.wrapped.io.FutureIO.awaitFuture;
+
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InterruptedIOException;
+import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataInputStream;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileStatus;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
@@ -29,6 +34,24 @@
 
 public class HadoopInputFile implements InputFile {
 
+  /**
+   * openFile() option name for setting the read policy: {@value}.
+   */
+  private static final String OPENFILE_READ_POLICY_KEY = "fs.option.openfile.read.policy";
+
+  /**
+   * Read policy when opening parquet files: {@value}.
+   * <p>Policy-aware stores pick the first policy they recognize in the list.
+   * everything recognizes "random";
+   * "vector" came in with 3.4.0, while "parquet" came with Hadoop 3.4.1
+   * parquet means "this is a Parquet file, so be clever about footers, prefetch,
+   * and expect vector and/or random IO".
+   * <p>In Hadoop 3.4.1, "parquet" and "vector" are both mapped to "random" for the
+   * S3A connector, but as the ABFS and GCS connectors do footer caching, they
+   * may use it as a hint to say "fetch the footer and keep it in memory"
+   */
+  private static final String PARQUET_READ_POLICY = "parquet, vector, random, adaptive";
+
   private final FileSystem fs;
   private final FileStatus stat;
   private final Configuration conf;
@@ -70,9 +93,38 @@ public long getLength() {
     return stat.getLen();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Open the file.
+   * <p>Uses {@code FileSystem.openFile()} so that
+   * the existing FileStatus can be passed down: saves a HEAD request on cloud storage.
+   * and ignored everywhere else.
+   *
+   * @return the input stream.
+   *
+   * @throws InterruptedIOException future was interrupted
+   * @throws IOException if something went wrong
+   * @throws RuntimeException any nested RTE thrown
+   */
   @Override
   public SeekableInputStream newStream() throws IOException {
-    return HadoopStreams.wrap(fs.open(stat.getPath()));
+    FSDataInputStream stream;
+    try {
+      // this method is async so that implementations may do async HEAD head
+      // requests. Not done in S3A/ABFS when a file status passed down (as is done here)
+      final CompletableFuture<FSDataInputStream> future = fs.openFile(stat.getPath())
+          .withFileStatus(stat)
+          .opt(OPENFILE_READ_POLICY_KEY, PARQUET_READ_POLICY)
+          .build();
+      stream = awaitFuture(future);
+    } catch (RuntimeException e) {
+      // S3A < 3.3.5 would raise illegal path exception if the openFile path didn't
+      // equal the path in the FileStatus; Hive virtual FS could create this condition.
+      // As the path to open is derived from stat.getPath(), this condition seems
+      // near-impossible to create -but is handled here for due diligence.
+      stream = fs.open(stat.getPath());
+    }
+
+    return HadoopStreams.wrap(stream);
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/util/wrapped/io/FutureIO.java b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/util/wrapped/io/FutureIO.java
index 47f4e959b4..23533c75bf 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/util/wrapped/io/FutureIO.java
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/hadoop/util/wrapped/io/FutureIO.java
@@ -70,6 +70,29 @@ public static <T> T awaitFuture(final Future<T> future, final long timeout, fina
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Given a future, evaluate it.
+   * <p>
+   * Any exception generated in the future is
+   * extracted and rethrown.
+   * </p>
+   * @param future future to evaluate
+   * @param <T> type of the result.
+   * @return the result, if all went well.
+   * @throws InterruptedIOException future was interrupted
+   * @throws IOException if something went wrong
+   * @throws RuntimeException any nested RTE thrown
+   */
+  public static <T> T awaitFuture(final Future<T> future)
+      throws InterruptedIOException, IOException, RuntimeException {
+    try {
+      return future.get();
+    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+      throw (InterruptedIOException) new InterruptedIOException(e.toString()).initCause(e);
+    } catch (ExecutionException e) {
+      throw unwrapInnerException(e);
+    }
+  }
   /**
    * From the inner cause of an execution exception, extract the inner cause
    * to an IOException, raising Errors immediately.