diff --git a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/connector/CatalogPruneTask.java b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/connector/CatalogPruneTask.java
index b4fd82c7113f..0dccf39a35ce 100644
--- a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/connector/CatalogPruneTask.java
+++ b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/connector/CatalogPruneTask.java
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@
 import org.weakref.jmx.Nested;
 
 import java.net.URI;
-import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor;
@@ -183,11 +182,7 @@ private URI getHttpUri(ServiceDescriptor descriptor)
     {
         String url = descriptor.getProperties().get(httpsRequired ? "https" : "http");
         if (url != null) {
-            try {
-                return new URI(url);
-            }
-            catch (URISyntaxException ignored) {
-            }
+            return URI.create(url);
         }
         return null;
     }
diff --git a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/failuredetector/HeartbeatFailureDetector.java b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/failuredetector/HeartbeatFailureDetector.java
index 6d1ea0247eee..b5f1e3b9876c 100644
--- a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/failuredetector/HeartbeatFailureDetector.java
+++ b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/failuredetector/HeartbeatFailureDetector.java
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@
 import java.net.ConnectException;
 import java.net.SocketTimeoutException;
 import java.net.URI;
-import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -266,11 +265,7 @@ private URI getHttpUri(ServiceDescriptor descriptor)
     {
         String url = descriptor.getProperties().get(httpsRequired ? "https" : "http");
         if (url != null) {
-            try {
-                return new URI(url);
-            }
-            catch (URISyntaxException ignored) {
-            }
+            return URI.create(url);
         }
         return null;
     }
diff --git a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/metadata/DiscoveryNodeManager.java b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/metadata/DiscoveryNodeManager.java
index a11e018d3396..15d229ca7e5a 100644
--- a/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/metadata/DiscoveryNodeManager.java
+++ b/core/trino-main/src/main/java/io/trino/metadata/DiscoveryNodeManager.java
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
 import org.weakref.jmx.Managed;
 
 import java.net.URI;
-import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Optional;
@@ -387,11 +386,7 @@ private static URI getHttpUri(ServiceDescriptor descriptor, boolean httpsRequire
     {
         String url = descriptor.getProperties().get(httpsRequired ? "https" : "http");
         if (url != null) {
-            try {
-                return new URI(url);
-            }
-            catch (URISyntaxException ignored) {
-            }
+            return URI.create(url);
         }
         return null;
     }
diff --git a/testing/trino-product-tests/src/main/java/io/trino/tests/product/TestImpersonation.java b/testing/trino-product-tests/src/main/java/io/trino/tests/product/TestImpersonation.java
index a27efea1b56e..ce15a13fd249 100644
--- a/testing/trino-product-tests/src/main/java/io/trino/tests/product/TestImpersonation.java
+++ b/testing/trino-product-tests/src/main/java/io/trino/tests/product/TestImpersonation.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 import org.testng.annotations.Test;
 
 import java.net.URI;
-import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 
 import static com.google.common.collect.Iterables.getOnlyElement;
 import static io.trino.tests.product.TestGroups.HDFS_IMPERSONATION;
@@ -89,13 +88,7 @@ private static String getTableLocation(QueryExecutor executor, String tableName)
     {
         String location = getOnlyElement(executor.executeQuery(format("SELECT DISTINCT regexp_replace(\"$path\", '/[^/]*$', '') FROM %s", tableName)).column(1));
         if (location.startsWith("hdfs://")) {
-            try {
-                URI uri = new URI(location);
-                return uri.getPath();
-            }
-            catch (URISyntaxException e) {
-                throw new RuntimeException(e);
-            }
+            return URI.create(location).getPath();
         }
         return location;
     }