diff --git a/Sources/ClientRuntime/Orchestrator/Orchestrator.swift b/Sources/ClientRuntime/Orchestrator/Orchestrator.swift
index 84e0ba69b..0898d9f6f 100644
--- a/Sources/ClientRuntime/Orchestrator/Orchestrator.swift
+++ b/Sources/ClientRuntime/Orchestrator/Orchestrator.swift
@@ -265,6 +265,13 @@ public struct Orchestrator<
             // If we can't get errorInfo, we definitely can't retry
             guard let errorInfo = retryErrorInfoProvider(error) else { return }
 
+            // If the body is a nonseekable stream, we also can't retry
+            do {
+                guard try readyBodyForRetry(request: copiedRequest) else { return }
+            } catch {
+                return
+            }
+
             // When refreshing fails it throws, indicating we're done retrying
             do {
                 try await strategy.refreshRetryTokenForRetry(tokenToRenew: token, errorInfo: errorInfo)
@@ -277,6 +284,25 @@ public struct Orchestrator<
         }
     }
 
+    /// Readies the body for retry, and indicates whether the request body may be safely used in a retry.
+    /// - Parameter request: The request to be retried.
+    /// - Returns: `true` if the body of the request is safe to retry, `false` otherwise.  In general, a request body is retriable if it is not a stream, or
+    ///   if the stream is seekable and successfully seeks to the start position / offset zero.
+    private func readyBodyForRetry(request: RequestType) throws -> Bool {
+        switch request.body {
+        case .stream(let stream):
+            guard stream.isSeekable else { return false }
+            do {
+                try stream.seek(toOffset: 0)
+                return true
+            } catch {
+                return false
+            }
+        case .data, .noStream:
+            return true
+        }
+    }
+
     private func attempt(context: InterceptorContextType, attemptCount: Int) async {
         // If anything in here fails, the attempt short-circuits and we go to modifyBeforeAttemptCompletion,
         // with the thrown error in context.result
diff --git a/Tests/ClientRuntimeTests/OrchestratorTests/OrchestratorTests.swift b/Tests/ClientRuntimeTests/OrchestratorTests/OrchestratorTests.swift
index 2e63544b6..084519220 100644
--- a/Tests/ClientRuntimeTests/OrchestratorTests/OrchestratorTests.swift
+++ b/Tests/ClientRuntimeTests/OrchestratorTests/OrchestratorTests.swift
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ import SmithyRetriesAPI
 import SmithyRetries
 @_spi(SmithyReadWrite) import SmithyJSON
 @_spi(SmithyReadWrite) import SmithyReadWrite
+import SmithyStreams
 
 class OrchestratorTests: XCTestCase {
     struct TestInput {
@@ -167,9 +168,11 @@ class OrchestratorTests: XCTestCase {
     }
 
     class TraceExecuteRequest: ExecuteRequest {
-        var succeedAfter: Int
+        let succeedAfter: Int
         var trace: Trace
 
+        private(set) var requestCount = 0
+
         init(succeedAfter: Int = 0, trace: Trace) {
             self.succeedAfter = succeedAfter
             self.trace = trace
@@ -177,10 +180,11 @@ class OrchestratorTests: XCTestCase {
 
         public func execute(request: HTTPRequest, attributes: Context) async throws -> HTTPResponse {
             trace.append("executeRequest")
-            if succeedAfter <= 0 {
+            if succeedAfter - requestCount <= 0 {
+                requestCount += 1
                 return HTTPResponse(body: request.body, statusCode: .ok)
             } else {
-                succeedAfter -= 1
+                requestCount += 1
                 return HTTPResponse(body: request.body, statusCode: .internalServerError)
             }
         }
@@ -233,7 +237,7 @@ class OrchestratorTests: XCTestCase {
                     throw try UnknownHTTPServiceError.makeError(baseError: baseError)
                 }
             })
-            .retryStrategy(DefaultRetryStrategy(options: RetryStrategyOptions(backoffStrategy: ExponentialBackoffStrategy())))
+            .retryStrategy(DefaultRetryStrategy(options: RetryStrategyOptions(backoffStrategy: ImmediateBackoffStrategy())))
             .retryErrorInfoProvider({ e in
                 trace.append("errorInfo")
                 return DefaultRetryErrorInfoProvider.errorInfo(for: e)
@@ -530,7 +534,7 @@ class OrchestratorTests: XCTestCase {
         let initialTokenTrace = Trace()
         let initialToken = await asyncResult {
             return try await self.traceOrchestrator(trace: initialTokenTrace)
-                .retryStrategy(ThrowingRetryStrategy(options: RetryStrategyOptions(backoffStrategy: ExponentialBackoffStrategy())))
+                .retryStrategy(ThrowingRetryStrategy(options: RetryStrategyOptions(backoffStrategy: ImmediateBackoffStrategy())))
                 .build()
                 .execute(input: TestInput(foo: ""))
         }
@@ -1315,4 +1319,60 @@ class OrchestratorTests: XCTestCase {
             }
         }
     }
+
+    /// Used in retry tests to perform the next retry without waiting, so that tests complete without delay.
+    private struct ImmediateBackoffStrategy: RetryBackoffStrategy {
+        func computeNextBackoffDelay(attempt: Int) -> TimeInterval { 0.0 }
+    }
+
+    func test_retry_retriesDataBody() async throws {
+        let input = TestInput(foo: "bar")
+        let trace = Trace()
+        let executeRequest = TraceExecuteRequest(succeedAfter: 2, trace: trace)
+        let orchestrator = traceOrchestrator(trace: trace)
+            .retryStrategy(DefaultRetryStrategy(options: RetryStrategyOptions(backoffStrategy: ImmediateBackoffStrategy())))
+            .serialize({ (input: TestInput, builder: HTTPRequestBuilder, context) in
+                builder.withBody(.data(Data("\"\(input.foo)\"".utf8)))
+            })
+            .executeRequest(executeRequest)
+        let result = await asyncResult {
+            return try await orchestrator.build().execute(input: input)
+        }
+        XCTAssertNoThrow(try result.get())
+        XCTAssertEqual(executeRequest.requestCount, 3)
+    }
+
+    func test_retry_doesntRetryNonSeekableStreamBody() async throws {
+        let input = TestInput(foo: "bar")
+        let trace = Trace()
+        let executeRequest = TraceExecuteRequest(succeedAfter: 2, trace: trace)
+        let orchestrator = traceOrchestrator(trace: trace)
+            .retryStrategy(DefaultRetryStrategy(options: RetryStrategyOptions(backoffStrategy: ImmediateBackoffStrategy())))
+            .serialize({ (input: TestInput, builder: HTTPRequestBuilder, context) in
+                builder.withBody(.stream(BufferedStream(data: Data("\"\(input.foo)\"".utf8), isClosed: true)))
+            })
+            .executeRequest(executeRequest)
+        let result = await asyncResult {
+            return try await orchestrator.build().execute(input: input)
+        }
+        XCTAssertThrowsError(try result.get())
+        XCTAssertEqual(executeRequest.requestCount, 1)
+    }
+
+    func test_retry_nonSeekableStreamBodySucceeds() async throws {
+        let input = TestInput(foo: "bar")
+        let trace = Trace()
+        let executeRequest = TraceExecuteRequest(succeedAfter: 0, trace: trace)
+        let orchestrator = traceOrchestrator(trace: trace)
+            .retryStrategy(DefaultRetryStrategy(options: RetryStrategyOptions(backoffStrategy: ImmediateBackoffStrategy())))
+            .serialize({ (input: TestInput, builder: HTTPRequestBuilder, context) in
+                builder.withBody(.stream(BufferedStream(data: Data("\"\(input.foo)\"".utf8), isClosed: true)))
+            })
+            .executeRequest(executeRequest)
+        let result = await asyncResult {
+            return try await orchestrator.build().execute(input: input)
+        }
+        XCTAssertNoThrow(try result.get())
+        XCTAssertEqual(executeRequest.requestCount, 1)
+    }
 }