diff --git a/packages/cubejs-backend-shared/src/env.ts b/packages/cubejs-backend-shared/src/env.ts
index a263fc36c217b..7e53dab8c87b0 100644
--- a/packages/cubejs-backend-shared/src/env.ts
+++ b/packages/cubejs-backend-shared/src/env.ts
@@ -479,6 +479,17 @@ const variables: Record<string, (...args: any) => any> = {
     return val;
   },
 
+  /**
+   * Flag to disable driver's test connection probes
+   */
+  dbDisableTestConnection: ({
+    dataSource
+  }: {
+    dataSource: string,
+  }) => (
+    !!process.env[keyByDataSource('CUBEJS_DB_DISABLE_TEST_CONNECTION', dataSource)]
+  ),
+
   /**
    * Database max pool size.
    */
@@ -500,7 +511,7 @@ const variables: Record<string, (...args: any) => any> = {
   ),
 
   /**
-   * Max polling interval. Currenly used in BigQuery and Databricks.
+   * Max polling interval. Currently used in BigQuery and Databricks.
    * TODO: clarify this env.
    */
   dbPollMaxInterval: ({
@@ -514,7 +525,7 @@ const variables: Record<string, (...args: any) => any> = {
   },
 
   /**
-   * Polling timeout. Currenly used in BigQuery, Dremio and Athena.
+   * Polling timeout. Currently used in BigQuery, Dremio and Athena.
    * TODO: clarify this env.
    */
   dbPollTimeout: ({
@@ -532,7 +543,7 @@ const variables: Record<string, (...args: any) => any> = {
   },
 
   /**
-   * Query timeout. Currenly used in BigQuery, Dremio, Postgres, Snowflake
+   * Query timeout. Currently used in BigQuery, Dremio, Postgres, Snowflake
    * and Athena drivers and the orchestrator (queues, pre-aggs). For the
    * orchestrator this variable did not split by the datasource.
    *
diff --git a/packages/cubejs-base-driver/src/BaseDriver.ts b/packages/cubejs-base-driver/src/BaseDriver.ts
index cf4ff4793f590..aa9fac1228270 100644
--- a/packages/cubejs-base-driver/src/BaseDriver.ts
+++ b/packages/cubejs-base-driver/src/BaseDriver.ts
@@ -171,10 +171,12 @@ const DbTypeValueMatcher: Record<string, ((v: any) => boolean)> = {
  * Base driver class.
  */
 export abstract class BaseDriver implements DriverInterface {
-  private testConnectionTimeoutValue = 10000;
+  private readonly testConnectionTimeoutValue: number = 10000;
 
   protected logger: any;
 
+  protected isTestConnectionDisabledFlag: boolean = false;
+
   /**
    * Class constructor.
    */
@@ -184,8 +186,14 @@ export abstract class BaseDriver implements DriverInterface {
      * request before determining it as not valid. Default - 10000 ms.
      */
     testConnectionTimeout?: number,
+
+    /**
+     * Flag for serverless DWHs to omit test connection probes.
+     */
+    isTestConnectionDisabled?: boolean,
   } = {}) {
     this.testConnectionTimeoutValue = _options.testConnectionTimeout || 10000;
+    this.isTestConnectionDisabledFlag = _options.isTestConnectionDisabled || false;
   }
 
   protected informationSchemaQuery() {
@@ -680,6 +688,10 @@ export abstract class BaseDriver implements DriverInterface {
     query.query = `SELECT * FROM (${query.query}) AS t LIMIT ${query.limit}`;
   }
 
+  public isTestConnectionDisabled(): boolean {
+    return !!this.isTestConnectionDisabledFlag;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Returns an array of signed AWS S3 URLs of the unloaded csv files.
    */