diff --git a/sagemaker-train/tests/integ/train/shallow/README.md b/sagemaker-train/tests/integ/train/shallow/README.md
index 07c8912185..ceeb4f53be 100644
--- a/sagemaker-train/tests/integ/train/shallow/README.md
+++ b/sagemaker-train/tests/integ/train/shallow/README.md
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ What this suite changes about the gate is not which job runs, but what the exist
 one selects: the `gpu_intensive` marks added here deselect the deep tests that
 submit a job and wait for it, and this suite covers those code paths instead.
 
+`integ-tests` does not rerun this suite. It invokes pytest through tox over the
+whole `tests/integ` tree, which would otherwise sweep this directory in and submit
+every job here a second time on the same commit. `tox.ini` passes
+`--ignore=tests/integ/train/shallow` to keep that from happening; `fast-integ-tests`
+calls pytest directly, so the ignore does not apply to it.
+
 > **Where this runs.** The `fast-integ-tests` job in `pr-checks-master.yml` does not
 > execute this suite on the GitHub runner — it starts the CodeBuild project
 > `sagemaker-python-sdk-ci-sagemaker-train-fast-integ-tests` via
@@ -19,7 +25,7 @@ submit a job and wait for it, and this suite covers those code paths instead.
 > — which is nearly all of them — without exposing those credentials to PR code.
 >
 > **Consequence for editing this suite:** the marker selection above (`-n 8`,
-> `--dist loadfile`, `-m "not gpu_intensive and not us_east_1"`) lives in
+> `-m "not gpu_intensive and not us_east_1"`) lives in
 > `createCIShallowIntegBuildSpec` in the `SageMakerMLFPySDKInfraCDK` package, not in
 > this repo. Adding a file under `shallow/` is picked up automatically, but changing
 > *how* the suite is invoked means a change there, which deploys through a pipeline
diff --git a/sagemaker-train/tox.ini b/sagemaker-train/tox.ini
index 21962188f1..1c935ed7f0 100644
--- a/sagemaker-train/tox.ini
+++ b/sagemaker-train/tox.ini
@@ -94,7 +94,15 @@ commands =
     pip install 'torchvision==0.18.1+cpu' -f 'https://download.pytorch.org/whl/torch_stable.html'
     pip install 'dill>=0.3.9'
 
-    pytest {posargs}
+    # --ignore keeps the shallow suite out of directory sweeps like
+    # `tox -- tests/integ`, which is how the deep integ-tests CodeBuild project
+    # invokes pytest. Without it, that project reruns all ~100 shallow tests
+    # that fast-integ-tests has already run on the same commit -- duplicate
+    # CreateTrainingJob calls against the shared job quota, for no extra
+    # coverage. fast-integ-tests calls pytest directly rather than through tox,
+    # so it is unaffected. --ignore only prunes recursion, so naming the
+    # directory explicitly (`tox -- tests/integ/train/shallow`) still runs it.
+    pytest --ignore=tests/integ/train/shallow {posargs}
 deps =
     -r ../requirements/extras/test_requirements.txt
     ../sagemaker-core