diff --git a/database/cassandra/README.md b/database/cassandra/README.md
index b44000d7b..c3d4387ad 100644
--- a/database/cassandra/README.md
+++ b/database/cassandra/README.md
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ system_schema table which comes with 3.X
 | `sslkey` | | Key file location. The file must contain PEM encoded data. |
 | `sslrootcert` | | The location of the root certificate file. The file must contain PEM encoded data. |
 | `sslmode` | | Whether or not to use SSL (disable\|require\|verify-ca\|verify-full) |
+| `disable-host-lookup`| false | Disable initial host lookup. |
 
 `timeout` is parsed using [time.ParseDuration(s string)](https://golang.org/pkg/time/#ParseDuration)
 
diff --git a/database/cassandra/cassandra.go b/database/cassandra/cassandra.go
index 58713e72b..a639426d1 100644
--- a/database/cassandra/cassandra.go
+++ b/database/cassandra/cassandra.go
@@ -156,6 +156,14 @@ func (c *Cassandra) Open(url string) (database.Driver, error) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	if len(u.Query().Get("disable-host-lookup")) > 0 {
+		if flag, err := strconv.ParseBool(u.Query().Get("disable-host-lookup")); err != nil && flag {
+			cluster.DisableInitialHostLookup = true
+		} else if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+
 	session, err := cluster.CreateSession()
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
@@ -228,16 +236,26 @@ func (c *Cassandra) Run(migration io.Reader) error {
 }
 
 func (c *Cassandra) SetVersion(version int, dirty bool) error {
-	query := `TRUNCATE "` + c.config.MigrationsTable + `"`
-	if err := c.session.Query(query).Exec(); err != nil {
-		return &database.Error{OrigErr: err, Query: []byte(query)}
+	// DELETE instead of TRUNCATE because AWS Keyspaces does not support it
+	// see: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/keyspaces/latest/devguide/cassandra-apis.html
+	squery := `SELECT version FROM "` + c.config.MigrationsTable + `"`
+	dquery := `DELETE FROM "` + c.config.MigrationsTable + `" WHERE version = ?`
+	iter := c.session.Query(squery).Iter()
+	var previous int
+	for iter.Scan(&previous) {
+		if err := c.session.Query(dquery, previous).Exec(); err != nil {
+			return &database.Error{OrigErr: err, Query: []byte(dquery)}
+		}
+	}
+	if err := iter.Close(); err != nil {
+		return &database.Error{OrigErr: err, Query: []byte(squery)}
 	}
 
 	// Also re-write the schema version for nil dirty versions to prevent
 	// empty schema version for failed down migration on the first migration
 	// See: https://github.com/golang-migrate/migrate/issues/330
 	if version >= 0 || (version == database.NilVersion && dirty) {
-		query = `INSERT INTO "` + c.config.MigrationsTable + `" (version, dirty) VALUES (?, ?)`
+		query := `INSERT INTO "` + c.config.MigrationsTable + `" (version, dirty) VALUES (?, ?)`
 		if err := c.session.Query(query, version, dirty).Exec(); err != nil {
 			return &database.Error{OrigErr: err, Query: []byte(query)}
 		}
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 641c17dd0..271d26a99 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/fsouza/fake-gcs-server v1.17.0
 	github.com/go-sql-driver/mysql v1.5.0
 	github.com/gobuffalo/here v0.6.0
-	github.com/gocql/gocql v0.0.0-20190301043612-f6df8288f9b4
+	github.com/gocql/gocql v0.0.0-20210515062232-b7ef815b4556
 	github.com/gofrs/uuid v4.0.0+incompatible // indirect
 	github.com/google/flatbuffers v2.0.0+incompatible // indirect
 	github.com/google/go-github/v35 v35.2.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 77f73feaf..2e236713f 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -217,6 +217,8 @@ github.com/gobuffalo/packr/v2 v2.2.0/go.mod h1:CaAwI0GPIAv+5wKLtv8Afwl+Cm78K/I/V
 github.com/gobuffalo/syncx v0.0.0-20190224160051-33c29581e754/go.mod h1:HhnNqWY95UYwwW3uSASeV7vtgYkT2t16hJgV3AEPUpw=
 github.com/gocql/gocql v0.0.0-20190301043612-f6df8288f9b4 h1:vF83LI8tAakwEwvWZtrIEx7pOySacl2TOxx6eXk4ePo=
 github.com/gocql/gocql v0.0.0-20190301043612-f6df8288f9b4/go.mod h1:4Fw1eo5iaEhDUs8XyuhSVCVy52Jq3L+/3GJgYkwc+/0=
+github.com/gocql/gocql v0.0.0-20210515062232-b7ef815b4556 h1:N/MD/sr6o61X+iZBAT2qEUF023s4KbA8RWfKzl0L6MQ=
+github.com/gocql/gocql v0.0.0-20210515062232-b7ef815b4556/go.mod h1:DL0ekTmBSTdlNF25Orwt/JMzqIq3EJ4MVa/J/uK64OY=
 github.com/gofrs/uuid v3.2.0+incompatible/go.mod h1:b2aQJv3Z4Fp6yNu3cdSllBxTCLRxnplIgP/c0N/04lM=
 github.com/gofrs/uuid v4.0.0+incompatible h1:1SD/1F5pU8p29ybwgQSwpQk+mwdRrXCYuPhW6m+TnJw=
 github.com/gofrs/uuid v4.0.0+incompatible/go.mod h1:b2aQJv3Z4Fp6yNu3cdSllBxTCLRxnplIgP/c0N/04lM=