diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 7b7e44539d3a..f4127611d8ec 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -375,6 +375,7 @@ jobs:
             !:trino-redis,
             !:trino-redshift,
             !:trino-resource-group-managers,
+            !:trino-server-core,            
             !:trino-server,
             !:trino-singlestore,
             !:trino-snowflake,
diff --git a/core/trino-server/NOTICE b/core/trino-server-core/NOTICE
similarity index 100%
rename from core/trino-server/NOTICE
rename to core/trino-server-core/NOTICE
diff --git a/core/trino-server-core/README.txt b/core/trino-server-core/README.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..47bda8ea36fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/trino-server-core/README.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+Trino is a distributed SQL query engine
+
+Trino supports data lakes and other data sources with a focus on high
+performance for analytics workloads. Numerous client applications and other
+integrations are available.
+
+Find more information on the Trino website at https://trino.io/
diff --git a/core/trino-server-core/pom.xml b/core/trino-server-core/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6f0115236b53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/trino-server-core/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+
+    <parent>
+        <groupId>io.trino</groupId>
+        <artifactId>trino-root</artifactId>
+        <version>472-SNAPSHOT</version>
+        <relativePath>../../pom.xml</relativePath>
+    </parent>
+
+    <artifactId>trino-server-core</artifactId>
+    <packaging>provisio</packaging>
+    <description>Trino - Server core package</description>
+
+    <properties>
+        <air.check.skip-enforcer>false</air.check.skip-enforcer>
+        <air.check.skip-duplicate-finder>true</air.check.skip-duplicate-finder>
+        <air.check.skip-findbugs>true</air.check.skip-findbugs>
+        <air.check.skip-dependency>true</air.check.skip-dependency>
+
+        <!-- Launcher properties -->
+        <main-class>io.trino.server.TrinoServer</main-class>
+        <process-name>${project.artifactId}</process-name>
+
+        <!-- Special consideration for Takari Lifecycle -->
+        <!-- This works as trino-server have no sources (is just provisio packaged) -->
+        <takari.skip>false</takari.skip>
+    </properties>
+
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.airlift</groupId>
+            <artifactId>junit-extensions</artifactId>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+
+    <!-- Needed for provisio to resolve transitive dependencies for server assembly -->
+    <repositories>
+        <repository>
+            <snapshots>
+                <enabled>false</enabled>
+            </snapshots>
+            <id>confluent</id>
+            <url>https://packages.confluent.io/maven/</url>
+        </repository>
+    </repositories>
+
+    <build>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
+                <configuration>
+                    <rules combine.self="override">
+                        <requireFilesSize>
+                            <!-- Maven Central has a 1GB limit -->
+                            <maxsize>1073741824</maxsize>
+                            <files>
+                                <file>${project.build.directory}/${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.tar.gz</file>
+                            </files>
+                        </requireFilesSize>
+                    </rules>
+                </configuration>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>enforce</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <phase>verify</phase>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>io.takari.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>takari-lifecycle-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>${dep.takari.version}</version>
+                <configuration>
+                    <proc>none</proc>
+                    <skip>${takari.skip}</skip>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+</project>
diff --git a/core/trino-server-core/src/main/provisio/trino-core.xml b/core/trino-server-core/src/main/provisio/trino-core.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..83e3975ee57e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/trino-server-core/src/main/provisio/trino-core.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+<runtime>
+    <!-- Target -->
+    <archive name="${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.tar.gz" hardLinkIncludes="**/*.jar" />
+
+    <!-- Notices -->
+    <fileSet to="/">
+        <directory path="${basedir}">
+            <include>NOTICE</include>
+            <include>README.txt</include>
+        </directory>
+    </fileSet>
+
+    <!-- Launcher -->
+    <artifactSet to="bin">
+        <artifact id="io.airlift:launcher:tar.gz:bin:${dep.launcher.version}">
+            <unpack />
+        </artifact>
+        <artifact id="io.airlift:launcher:tar.gz:properties:${dep.launcher.version}">
+            <unpack filter="true" />
+        </artifact>
+    </artifactSet>
+
+    <!-- Server -->
+    <artifactSet to="lib">
+        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-server-main:${project.version}" />
+    </artifactSet>
+
+    <!-- Configuration Plugins -->
+    <artifactSet to="secrets-plugin/keystore-secrets-plugin">
+        <artifact id="io.airlift:secrets-keystore-plugin:zip:${dep.airlift.version}">
+            <unpack />
+        </artifact>
+    </artifactSet>
+
+    <!-- Plugins -->
+    <artifactSet to="plugin/exchange-filesystem">
+        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-exchange-filesystem:zip:${project.version}">
+            <unpack />
+        </artifact>
+    </artifactSet>
+
+    <artifactSet to="plugin/exchange-hdfs">
+        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-exchange-hdfs:zip:${project.version}">
+            <unpack />
+        </artifact>
+    </artifactSet>
+
+    <artifactSet to="plugin/functions-python">
+        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-functions-python:zip:${project.version}">
+            <unpack />
+        </artifact>
+    </artifactSet>
+
+    <artifactSet to="plugin/geospatial">
+        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-geospatial:zip:${project.version}">
+            <unpack />
+        </artifact>
+    </artifactSet>
+
+    <artifactSet to="plugin/ml">
+        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-ml:zip:${project.version}">
+            <unpack />
+        </artifact>
+    </artifactSet>
+
+    <artifactSet to="plugin/password-authenticators">
+        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-password-authenticators:zip:${project.version}">
+            <unpack />
+        </artifact>
+    </artifactSet>
+
+    <artifactSet to="plugin/resource-group-managers">
+        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-resource-group-managers:zip:${project.version}">
+            <unpack />
+        </artifact>
+    </artifactSet>
+
+    <artifactSet to="plugin/session-property-managers">
+        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-session-property-managers:zip:${project.version}">
+            <unpack />
+        </artifact>
+    </artifactSet>
+
+    <artifactSet to="plugin/spooling-filesystem">
+        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-spooling-filesystem:zip:${project.version}">
+            <unpack />
+        </artifact>
+    </artifactSet>
+
+</runtime>
diff --git a/core/trino-server-core/src/test/java/io/trino/server/TestDummy.java b/core/trino-server-core/src/test/java/io/trino/server/TestDummy.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b560df431cb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/trino-server-core/src/test/java/io/trino/server/TestDummy.java
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package io.trino.server;
+
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+
+public class TestDummy
+{
+    @Test
+    public void buildRequiresTestToExist() {}
+}
diff --git a/core/trino-server/README.txt b/core/trino-server/README.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d6ca9ae5363..000000000000
--- a/core/trino-server/README.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-Trino is a distributed SQL query engine.
-
-Please see the website for installation instructions:
-
-https://trino.io/
diff --git a/core/trino-server/pom.xml b/core/trino-server/pom.xml
index 6d9f3c5afd58..e28615783506 100644
--- a/core/trino-server/pom.xml
+++ b/core/trino-server/pom.xml
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@
     </properties>
 
     <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>io.trino</groupId>
+            <artifactId>trino-server-core</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+            <type>tar.gz</type>
+        </dependency>
         <dependency>
             <groupId>io.airlift</groupId>
             <artifactId>junit-extensions</artifactId>
@@ -53,6 +59,8 @@
                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                 <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
                 <configuration>
+                    <!-- Temporarily skip until archive is reduced in size -->
+                    <skip>true</skip>
                     <rules combine.self="override">
                         <requireFilesSize>
                             <!-- Maven Central has a 1GB limit -->
diff --git a/core/trino-server/src/main/provisio/trino.xml b/core/trino-server/src/main/provisio/trino.xml
index 17272e70cafd..dbb7144c5d32 100644
--- a/core/trino-server/src/main/provisio/trino.xml
+++ b/core/trino-server/src/main/provisio/trino.xml
@@ -2,32 +2,9 @@
     <!-- Target -->
     <archive name="${project.artifactId}-${project.version}.tar.gz" hardLinkIncludes="**/*.jar" />
 
-    <!-- Notices -->
-    <fileSet to="/">
-        <directory path="${basedir}">
-            <include>NOTICE</include>
-            <include>README.txt</include>
-        </directory>
-    </fileSet>
-
-    <!-- Launcher -->
-    <artifactSet to="bin">
-        <artifact id="io.airlift:launcher:tar.gz:bin:${dep.launcher.version}">
-            <unpack />
-        </artifact>
-        <artifact id="io.airlift:launcher:tar.gz:properties:${dep.launcher.version}">
-            <unpack filter="true" />
-        </artifact>
-    </artifactSet>
-
-    <!-- Server -->
-    <artifactSet to="lib">
-        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-server-main:${project.version}" />
-    </artifactSet>
-
-    <!-- Configuration Plugins -->
-    <artifactSet to="secrets-plugin/keystore-secrets-plugin">
-        <artifact id="io.airlift:secrets-keystore-plugin:zip:${dep.airlift.version}">
+   <!-- Expand on top of trino-server-core -->
+    <artifactSet to="">
+        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-server-core:tar.gz:${project.version}">
             <unpack />
         </artifact>
     </artifactSet>
@@ -96,48 +73,18 @@
         </artifact>
     </artifactSet>
 
-    <artifactSet to="plugin/example-http">
-        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-example-http:zip:${project.version}">
-            <unpack />
-        </artifact>
-    </artifactSet>
-
     <artifactSet to="plugin/exasol">
         <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-exasol:zip:${project.version}">
             <unpack />
         </artifact>
     </artifactSet>
 
-    <artifactSet to="plugin/exchange-filesystem">
-        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-exchange-filesystem:zip:${project.version}">
-            <unpack />
-        </artifact>
-    </artifactSet>
-
-    <artifactSet to="plugin/exchange-hdfs">
-        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-exchange-hdfs:zip:${project.version}">
-            <unpack />
-        </artifact>
-    </artifactSet>
-
     <artifactSet to="plugin/faker">
         <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-faker:zip:${project.version}">
             <unpack />
         </artifact>
     </artifactSet>
 
-    <artifactSet to="plugin/functions-python">
-        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-functions-python:zip:${project.version}">
-            <unpack />
-        </artifact>
-    </artifactSet>
-
-    <artifactSet to="plugin/geospatial">
-        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-geospatial:zip:${project.version}">
-            <unpack />
-        </artifact>
-    </artifactSet>
-
     <artifactSet to="plugin/google-sheets">
         <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-google-sheets:zip:${project.version}">
             <unpack />
@@ -159,12 +106,6 @@
         </artifact>
     </artifactSet>
 
-    <artifactSet to="plugin/http-server-event-listener">
-        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-http-server-event-listener:zip:${project.version}">
-            <unpack />
-        </artifact>
-    </artifactSet>
-
     <artifactSet to="plugin/hudi">
         <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-hudi:zip:${project.version}">
             <unpack />
@@ -231,12 +172,6 @@
         </artifact>
     </artifactSet>
 
-    <artifactSet to="plugin/ml">
-        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-ml:zip:${project.version}">
-            <unpack />
-        </artifact>
-    </artifactSet>
-
     <artifactSet to="plugin/mongodb">
         <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-mongodb:zip:${project.version}">
             <unpack />
@@ -279,18 +214,6 @@
         </artifact>
     </artifactSet>
 
-    <artifactSet to="plugin/password-authenticators">
-        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-password-authenticators:zip:${project.version}">
-            <unpack />
-        </artifact>
-    </artifactSet>
-
-    <artifactSet to="plugin/phoenix5">
-        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-phoenix5:zip:${project.version}">
-            <unpack />
-        </artifact>
-    </artifactSet>
-
     <artifactSet to="plugin/pinot">
         <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-pinot:zip:${project.version}">
             <unpack />
@@ -321,18 +244,6 @@
         </artifact>
     </artifactSet>
 
-    <artifactSet to="plugin/resource-group-managers">
-        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-resource-group-managers:zip:${project.version}">
-            <unpack />
-        </artifact>
-    </artifactSet>
-
-    <artifactSet to="plugin/session-property-managers">
-        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-session-property-managers:zip:${project.version}">
-            <unpack />
-        </artifact>
-    </artifactSet>
-
     <artifactSet to="plugin/singlestore">
         <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-singlestore:zip:${project.version}">
             <unpack />
@@ -345,24 +256,12 @@
         </artifact>
     </artifactSet>
 
-    <artifactSet to="plugin/spooling-filesystem">
-        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-spooling-filesystem:zip:${project.version}">
-            <unpack />
-        </artifact>
-    </artifactSet>
-
     <artifactSet to="plugin/sqlserver">
         <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-sqlserver:zip:${project.version}">
             <unpack />
         </artifact>
     </artifactSet>
 
-    <artifactSet to="plugin/teradata-functions">
-        <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-teradata-functions:zip:${project.version}">
-            <unpack />
-        </artifact>
-    </artifactSet>
-
     <artifactSet to="plugin/thrift">
         <artifact id="${project.groupId}:trino-thrift:zip:${project.version}">
             <unpack />
diff --git a/docs/src/main/sphinx/connector/phoenix.md b/docs/src/main/sphinx/connector/phoenix.md
index 5fde1a4d5681..b0ad6d861531 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/sphinx/connector/phoenix.md
+++ b/docs/src/main/sphinx/connector/phoenix.md
@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ The Phoenix connector allows querying data stored in
 [Apache HBase](https://hbase.apache.org/) using
 [Apache Phoenix](https://phoenix.apache.org/).
 
+## Installation
+
+The Phoenix connector plugin is optional and must be downloaded and installed
+as part of your Trino cluster provisioning.
+
+Download the plugin archive {maven_download}`phoenix` and follow the plugin
+installation instructions.
+
 ## Requirements
 
 To query HBase data through Phoenix, you need:
diff --git a/docs/src/main/sphinx/develop/example-http.md b/docs/src/main/sphinx/develop/example-http.md
index d68d5bb00a8d..064168d9f378 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/sphinx/develop/example-http.md
+++ b/docs/src/main/sphinx/develop/example-http.md
@@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ data over HTTP. For example, if you have a large amount of data in a
 CSV format, you can point the example HTTP connector at this data and
 write a query to process it.
 
+## Installation
+
+The example HTTP connector plugin is optional and must be downloaded and
+installed as part of your Trino cluster provisioning.
+
+Download the plugin archive {maven_download}`example-http` and follow the plugin
+installation instructions.
+
 ## Code
 
 The Example HTTP connector can be found in the [trino-example-http](https://github.com/trinodb/trino/tree/master/plugin/trino-example-http)
diff --git a/docs/src/main/sphinx/ext/download.py b/docs/src/main/sphinx/ext/download.py
index 0fa37b7d849b..dbb4cc41ffba 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/sphinx/ext/download.py
+++ b/docs/src/main/sphinx/ext/download.py
@@ -22,7 +22,9 @@
     'server': ('trino-server', 'tar.gz', None),
     'cli': ('trino-cli', 'jar', 'executable'),
     'jdbc': ('trino-jdbc', 'jar', None),
-
+    'teradata-functions':  ('trino-teradata-functions', 'zip', None),
+    'example-http':  ('trino-example-http', 'zip', None),
+    'phoenix':  ('trino-phoenix5', 'zip', None),
 }
 
 
diff --git a/docs/src/main/sphinx/functions/teradata.md b/docs/src/main/sphinx/functions/teradata.md
index d1218deb0cd6..71a11259e81e 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/sphinx/functions/teradata.md
+++ b/docs/src/main/sphinx/functions/teradata.md
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@
 
 These functions provide compatibility with Teradata SQL.
 
+## Installation
+
+The Teradata functions plugin is optional and must be downloaded and installed
+as part of your Trino cluster provisioning. 
+
+Download the plugin archive {maven_download}`teradata-functions`
+and follow the plugin installation instructions.
+
 ## String functions
 
 :::{function} char2hexint(string) -> varchar
diff --git a/plugin/trino-http-server-event-listener/README.md b/plugin/trino-http-server-event-listener/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7cdfc917f85d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugin/trino-http-server-event-listener/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+# Trino HTTP server event listener plugin
+
+The HTTP server event listener plugin is optional and must be downloaded and
+installed as part of your Trino cluster provisioning. 
+
+Download the plugin archive from the Maven Central Repository and follow the
+plugin installation instructions from the documentation.
+
+https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/io.trino/trino-http-server-event-listener
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index fe27f73e9758..eb701aa8bbc3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
         <module>core/trino-main</module>
         <module>core/trino-parser</module>
         <module>core/trino-server</module>
+        <module>core/trino-server-core</module>
         <module>core/trino-server-main</module>
         <module>core/trino-spi</module>
         <module>core/trino-web-ui</module>
@@ -1403,6 +1404,12 @@
                 <version>${project.version}</version>
             </dependency>
 
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>io.trino</groupId>
+                <artifactId>trino-server-core</artifactId>
+                <version>${project.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>io.trino</groupId>
                 <artifactId>trino-session-property-managers</artifactId>