diff --git a/cmd/erasure-server-pool.go b/cmd/erasure-server-pool.go
index 35778fbbc..e70b95c7c 100644
--- a/cmd/erasure-server-pool.go
+++ b/cmd/erasure-server-pool.go
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"math/rand"
 	"net/http"
+	"path"
 	"sort"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
@@ -1323,6 +1324,85 @@ func (z *erasureServerPools) ListObjects(ctx context.Context, bucket, prefix, ma
 	}
 	opts.setBucketMeta(ctx)
 
+	ri := logger.GetReqInfo(ctx)
+	hadoop := ri != nil && strings.Contains(ri.UserAgent, `Hadoop `) && strings.Contains(ri.UserAgent, "scala/")
+	matches := func() bool {
+		if prefix == "" {
+			return false
+		}
+		// List of standard files supported by s3a
+		// that involves a List() on a directory
+		// where directory is actually an object on
+		// namespace.
+		for _, k := range []string{
+			"_SUCCESS/",
+			".parquet/",
+			".csv/",
+			".json/",
+			".avro/",
+			".orc/",
+			".txt/",
+			// Add any other files in future
+		} {
+			if strings.HasSuffix(prefix, k) {
+				return true
+			}
+		}
+		return false
+	}
+	if hadoop && matches() && delimiter == SlashSeparator && maxKeys == 2 && marker == "" {
+		// Optimization for Spark/Hadoop workload where spark sends a garbage
+		// request of this kind
+		//
+		// GET /testbucket/?list-type=2&delimiter=%2F&max-keys=2&prefix=parquet%2F_SUCCESS%2F&fetch-owner=false
+		//
+		// Here spark is expecting that the List() return empty instead, so from MinIO's point
+		// of view if we simply do a GetObjectInfo() on this prefix by treating it as an object
+		// We save a lot of calls over the network.
+		//
+		// This happens repeatedly for all objects that are created concurrently() avoiding this
+		// as a List() call is an important performance improvement.
+		//
+		// Spark based s3a committers are a  big enough use-case to have this optimization.
+		//
+		// A sample code to see the improvements is as follows, this sample code is
+		// simply a read on JSON from MinIO and write it back as "parquet".
+		//
+		// import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
+		// import org.apache.spark.sql.types.{IntegerType, StringType, StructField, StructType}
+		// object SparkJSONRead {
+		//   def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
+		//     val spark:SparkSession = SparkSession.builder()
+		//       .appName("SparkByExample")
+		//       .master("local[1]").getOrCreate()
+		//
+		//     spark.sparkContext.setLogLevel("ERROR")
+		//     spark.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration.set("fs.s3a.endpoint", "http://minio-lb:9000")
+		//     spark.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration.set("fs.s3a.path.style.access", "true")
+		//     spark.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration.set("fs.s3a.access.key", "minioadmin")
+		//     spark.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration.set("fs.s3a.secret.key", "minioadmin")
+		//
+		//     val df = spark.read.json("s3a://testbucket/s3.json")
+		//
+		//     df.write.parquet("s3a://testbucket/parquet/")
+		//   }
+		// }
+		objInfo, err := z.GetObjectInfo(ctx, bucket, path.Dir(prefix), ObjectOptions{NoLock: true})
+		if err == nil {
+			if opts.Lifecycle != nil {
+				evt := evalActionFromLifecycle(ctx, *opts.Lifecycle, opts.Retention, objInfo)
+				if evt.Action.Delete() {
+					globalExpiryState.enqueueByDays(objInfo, evt, lcEventSrc_s3ListObjects)
+					if !evt.Action.DeleteRestored() {
+						// Skip entry if ILM action was DeleteVersionAction or DeleteAction
+						return loi, nil
+					}
+				}
+			}
+			return loi, nil
+		}
+	}
+
 	if len(prefix) > 0 && maxKeys == 1 && marker == "" {
 		// Optimization for certain applications like
 		// - Cohesity