diff --git a/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/pipelines/pipeline_v3/s3/test_writer.py b/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/pipelines/pipeline_v3/s3/test_writer.py
index 265f6c703151..d3bdab851ae5 100644
--- a/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/pipelines/pipeline_v3/s3/test_writer.py
+++ b/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/pipelines/pipeline_v3/s3/test_writer.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
 
 import pyarrow as pa
+import botocore.exceptions
 from parameterized import parameterized
 
 from products.warehouse_sources.backend.temporal.data_imports.pipelines.pipeline_v3.s3.writer import (
@@ -50,6 +51,38 @@ def test_reraises_after_persistent_os_error(self, mock_write_table, _mock_sleep)
 
         assert mock_write_table.call_count == 4
 
+    @patch("tenacity.nap.time.sleep")
+    @patch("pyarrow.parquet.write_table")
+    def test_retries_read_timeout_then_succeeds(self, mock_write_table, _mock_sleep) -> None:
+        # A read/connect timeout never gets s3fs's OSError translation (there's no response to
+        # translate), so it reaches here as the raw botocore exception rather than an OSError.
+        # It's exactly the transient blip this retry exists for and shouldn't fail the batch.
+        f = MagicMock()
+        s3 = _fake_s3([f, f])
+        mock_write_table.side_effect = [
+            botocore.exceptions.ReadTimeoutError(endpoint_url="https://example.com/part-0000.parquet"),
+            None,
+        ]
+
+        _write_parquet_to_s3(s3, "bucket/part-0000.parquet", pa.table({"id": [1]}), "zstd")
+
+        assert mock_write_table.call_count == 2
+
+    @patch("pyarrow.parquet.write_table")
+    def test_does_not_retry_ssl_error(self, mock_write_table) -> None:
+        # SSLError is a ConnectionError subclass but usually means a bad/expired certificate,
+        # not a network blip — retrying just delays a failure that will happen on every attempt.
+        f = MagicMock()
+        s3 = _fake_s3([f])
+        mock_write_table.side_effect = botocore.exceptions.SSLError(
+            endpoint_url="https://example.com/part-0000.parquet", error=Exception("certificate verify failed")
+        )
+
+        with pytest.raises(botocore.exceptions.SSLError):
+            _write_parquet_to_s3(s3, "bucket/part-0000.parquet", pa.table({"id": [1]}), "zstd")
+
+        assert mock_write_table.call_count == 1
+
     @patch("pyarrow.parquet.write_table")
     def test_does_not_retry_permission_error(self, mock_write_table) -> None:
         # PermissionError (e.g. AccessDenied/InvalidAccessKeyId) is an OSError subclass but not
diff --git a/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/pipelines/pipeline_v3/s3/writer.py b/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/pipelines/pipeline_v3/s3/writer.py
index f03473f2be83..49070a34e28e 100644
--- a/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/pipelines/pipeline_v3/s3/writer.py
+++ b/products/warehouse_sources/backend/temporal/data_imports/pipelines/pipeline_v3/s3/writer.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 import s3fs
 import pyarrow as pa
 import pyarrow.parquet as pq
+import botocore.exceptions
 from structlog.types import FilteringBoundLogger
 from temporalio import activity
 from tenacity import retry, retry_if_exception, stop_after_attempt, wait_exponential_jitter
@@ -79,6 +80,19 @@ def _is_transient_s3_write_error(exc: BaseException) -> bool:
     # FileNotFoundError, and TimeoutError are also OSError subclasses but signal
     # non-transient causes (bad credentials, deleted bucket) that retrying won't fix,
     # so only the exact base type is treated as retryable here.
+    #
+    # A read/connect timeout or a dropped connection to the object store never gets that OSError
+    # translation: s3fs's own internal retries only convert a *response* it got back into an
+    # OSError, and a timed-out or refused connection never got one. It reaches here as the raw
+    # botocore exception once those internal retries are exhausted, so it needs a type check of
+    # its own (these are exactly the classes s3fs itself treats as retryable, see its
+    # S3_RETRYABLE_ERRORS/ClientError handling in s3fs.core._error_wrapper). SSLError is a
+    # ConnectionError subclass but usually means a persistent certificate problem, not a blip,
+    # so it's excluded rather than spending the whole retry budget before failing anyway.
+    if isinstance(exc, botocore.exceptions.SSLError):
+        return False
+    if isinstance(exc, botocore.exceptions.HTTPClientError | botocore.exceptions.ConnectionError):
+        return True
     return type(exc) is OSError