diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-js/src/bundle_index_cache.rs b/crates/symbolicator-js/src/bundle_index_cache.rs
index 337e0d254..e6b88695e 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-js/src/bundle_index_cache.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-js/src/bundle_index_cache.rs
@@ -89,4 +89,11 @@ impl CacheItemRequest for BundleIndexRequest {
     fn weight(item: &Self::Item) -> u32 {
         item.0.max(std::mem::size_of::<Self::Item>() as u32)
     }
+
+    fn use_shared_cache(&self) -> bool {
+        // These change frequently, and are being downloaded from Sentry directly.
+        // Here again, the question is whether we want to waste a bit of storage on GCS vs doing
+        // more requests to Python.
+        true
+    }
 }
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/caching/cache_error.rs b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/caching/cache_error.rs
index 5faa6e8fc..af4e6ebd1 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/caching/cache_error.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/caching/cache_error.rs
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ impl CacheError {
 /// object could not be fetched or is otherwise unusable.
 pub type CacheEntry<T = ()> = Result<T, CacheError>;
 
-/// Parses a [`CacheEntry`] from a [`ByteView`](ByteView).
+/// Parses a [`CacheEntry`] from a [`ByteView`].
 pub fn cache_entry_from_bytes(bytes: ByteView<'static>) -> CacheEntry<ByteView<'static>> {
     CacheError::from_bytes(&bytes).map(Err).unwrap_or(Ok(bytes))
 }
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/caching/cache_key.rs b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/caching/cache_key.rs
index bfe56b6c4..6d5d9fbaa 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/caching/cache_key.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/caching/cache_key.rs
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ impl CacheKey {
 
 /// A builder for [`CacheKey`]s.
 ///
-/// This builder implements the [`Write`](std::fmt::Write) trait, and the intention of it is to
+/// This builder implements the [`Write`] trait, and the intention of it is to
 /// accept human readable, but most importantly **stable**, input.
 /// This input in then being hashed to form the [`CacheKey`], and can also be serialized alongside
 /// the cache files to help debugging.
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/caching/memory.rs b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/caching/memory.rs
index e141e9ca7..873174026 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/caching/memory.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/caching/memory.rs
@@ -170,6 +170,13 @@ pub trait CacheItemRequest: 'static + Send + Sync + Clone {
 }
 
 impl<T: CacheItemRequest> Cacher<T> {
+    fn shared_cache(&self, request: &T) -> Option<&SharedCacheService> {
+        request
+            .use_shared_cache()
+            .then(|| self.shared_cache.get())
+            .flatten()
+    }
+
     /// Compute an item.
     ///
     /// The item is computed using [`T::compute`](CacheItemRequest::compute), and saved in the cache
@@ -182,9 +189,8 @@ impl<T: CacheItemRequest> Cacher<T> {
         let cache_path = key.cache_path(T::VERSIONS.current);
         let mut temp_file = self.config.tempfile()?;
 
-        let shared_cache_hit = if !request.use_shared_cache() {
-            false
-        } else if let Some(shared_cache) = self.shared_cache.get() {
+        let shared_cache = self.shared_cache(&request);
+        let shared_cache_hit = if let Some(shared_cache) = shared_cache {
             let temp_fd = tokio::fs::File::from_std(temp_file.reopen()?);
             shared_cache.fetch(name, &cache_path, temp_fd).await
         } else {
@@ -263,9 +269,9 @@ impl<T: CacheItemRequest> Cacher<T> {
 
         // TODO: Not handling negative caches probably has a huge perf impact.  Need to
         // figure out negative caches.  Maybe put them in redis with a TTL?
-        if !shared_cache_hit && request.use_shared_cache() {
+        if !shared_cache_hit {
             if let Ok(byteview) = &entry {
-                if let Some(shared_cache) = self.shared_cache.get() {
+                if let Some(shared_cache) = shared_cache {
                     shared_cache.store(name, &cache_path, byteview.clone(), CacheStoreReason::New);
                 }
             }
@@ -293,7 +299,7 @@ impl<T: CacheItemRequest> Cacher<T> {
         let init = Box::pin(async {
             // cache_path is None when caching is disabled.
             if let Some(cache_dir) = self.config.cache_dir() {
-                let shared_cache = self.shared_cache.get();
+                let shared_cache = self.shared_cache(&request);
                 let versions = std::iter::once(T::VERSIONS.current)
                     .chain(T::VERSIONS.fallbacks.iter().copied());
 
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/bitcode.rs b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/bitcode.rs
index 78a7fedd6..53ff3b738 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/bitcode.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/bitcode.rs
@@ -132,6 +132,10 @@ impl CacheItemRequest for FetchFileRequest {
             data,
         }))
     }
+
+    fn use_shared_cache(&self) -> bool {
+        self.file_source.worth_using_shared_cache()
+    }
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/il2cpp.rs b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/il2cpp.rs
index 0bcb6d552..ecdc9fbb9 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/il2cpp.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/il2cpp.rs
@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ impl CacheItemRequest for FetchFileRequest {
             data,
         })
     }
+
+    fn use_shared_cache(&self) -> bool {
+        self.file_source.worth_using_shared_cache()
+    }
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/objects/data_cache.rs b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/objects/data_cache.rs
index 501341237..a8202f2b0 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/objects/data_cache.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/objects/data_cache.rs
@@ -233,6 +233,10 @@ impl CacheItemRequest for FetchFileDataRequest {
 
         Ok(Arc::new(object_handle))
     }
+
+    fn use_shared_cache(&self) -> bool {
+        self.0.file_source.worth_using_shared_cache()
+    }
 }
 
 #[cfg(test)]
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/objects/mod.rs b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/objects/mod.rs
index 2e308c6ae..fe9a2a211 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/objects/mod.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/services/objects/mod.rs
@@ -74,6 +74,11 @@ pub struct FindResult {
 
 #[derive(Clone, Debug)]
 pub struct ObjectsActor {
+    // FIXME(swatinem): Having a fully fledged filesystem and shared cache for these tiny file meta
+    // items is heavy handed and wasteful. However, we *do* want to have this in shared cache, as
+    // it is the primary thing that makes cold starts fast, as we do not need to fetch the whole
+    // objects, but just the derived caches. Some lighter weight solution, like Redis might be more
+    // appropriate at some point.
     meta_cache: Arc<Cacher<FetchFileMetaRequest>>,
     data_cache: Arc<Cacher<FetchFileDataRequest>>,
     download_svc: Arc<DownloadService>,
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-sources/src/remotefile.rs b/crates/symbolicator-sources/src/remotefile.rs
index d1d408d2c..a2457b0bf 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-sources/src/remotefile.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-sources/src/remotefile.rs
@@ -280,6 +280,23 @@ impl RemoteFile {
             RemoteFile::Sentry(source) => source.host(),
         }
     }
+
+    /// Determines if this [`RemoteFile`] is worth caching in shared cache or not.
+    ///
+    /// This is `true` for all external symbol servers, but not for our internal source, as we would
+    /// just save the same bytes twice, with an extra roundtrip on fetches.
+    pub fn worth_using_shared_cache(&self) -> bool {
+        match self {
+            // This is our internal sentry source. It is debatable if we want to rather fetch
+            // the file through the Python->FileStore->GCS indirection,
+            // or rather pay to save it twice so we can access GCS (shared cache) directly.
+            RemoteFile::Sentry(_) => true,
+            // This is most likely our scraped apple symbols, which are hosted on GCS directly, no
+            // need to save them twice in shared cache.
+            RemoteFile::Gcs(source) if source.source.id.as_str().starts_with("sentry:") => false,
+            _ => true,
+        }
+    }
 }
 
 /// A URI representing an [`RemoteFile`].