diff --git a/.github/workflows/load_test.yaml b/.github/workflows/load_test.yaml
index 4afe9bbd..a10c9428 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/load_test.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/load_test.yaml
@@ -11,66 +11,24 @@ on:
       - 'main'
 
 jobs:
-  start-runner:
-    name: Start self-hosted EC2 runner
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    env:
-      AWS_REGION: eu-central-1
-      EC2_AMI_ID: ami-0ab09c07cfd194259
-      EC2_INSTANCE_TYPE: g5.12xlarge
-      EC2_SUBNET_ID: subnet-988fd9f2,subnet-6f56db13,subnet-6a039326
-      EC2_SECURITY_GROUP: sg-072f92ae3082936c6
-    outputs:
-      label: ${{ steps.start-ec2-runner.outputs.label }}
-      ec2-instance-id: ${{ steps.start-ec2-runner.outputs.ec2-instance-id }}
-    steps:
-      - name: Configure AWS credentials
-        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
-        with:
-          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
-          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          aws-region: ${{ env.AWS_REGION }}
-      - name: Start EC2 runner
-        id: start-ec2-runner
-        uses: philschmid/philschmid-ec2-github-runner@main
-        with:
-          mode: start
-          github-token: ${{ secrets.GH_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
-          ec2-image-id: ${{ env.EC2_AMI_ID }}
-          ec2-instance-type: ${{ env.EC2_INSTANCE_TYPE }}
-          subnet-id: ${{ env.EC2_SUBNET_ID }}
-          security-group-id: ${{ env.EC2_SECURITY_GROUP }}
-          aws-resource-tags: > # optional, requires additional permissions
-            [
-              {"Key": "Name", "Value": "ec2-tgi-github-runner"},
-              {"Key": "GitHubRepository", "Value": "${{ github.repository }}"}
-            ]
-
   load-tests:
     concurrency:
       group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.job }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
       cancel-in-progress: true
-    needs: start-runner # required to start the main job when the runner is ready
-    runs-on: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.label }} # run the job on the newly created runner
+    runs-on: [self-hosted, nvidia-gpu , multi-gpu, 4-a10, ci]
     env:
       DOCKER_VOLUME: /cache
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
-      - name: Prepare disks
-        run: |
-          sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/nvme1n1
-          sudo mkdir ${{ env.DOCKER_VOLUME }}
-          sudo mount /dev/nvme1n1 ${{ env.DOCKER_VOLUME }}
-
       - name: Install k6
         run: |
           curl https://github.com/grafana/k6/releases/download/v0.44.0/k6-v0.44.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz -L | tar xvz --strip-components 1
 
       - name: Start starcoder
         run: |
-          docker run --name tgi-starcoder --rm --gpus all -p 3000:80 -v ${{ env.DOCKER_VOLUME }}:/data -e HF_TOKEN=${{ secrets.HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN }} --pull always -d ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:latest --model-id bigcode/starcoder --num-shard 2 --max-batch-total-tokens 32768
+          docker run --name tgi-starcoder --rm --gpus all -p 3000:80 -v /mnt/cache:/data -e HF_TOKEN=${{ secrets.HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN }} --pull always -d ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:latest --model-id bigcode/starcoder --num-shard 2 --max-batch-total-tokens 32768
           sleep 10
           wget --timeout 10 --retry-on-http-error --waitretry=1 --tries=240 http://localhost:3000/health
 
@@ -82,27 +40,3 @@ jobs:
         if: ${{ always() }}
         run: |
           docker stop tgi-starcoder || true
-
-  stop-runner:
-    name: Stop self-hosted EC2 runner
-    needs:
-      - start-runner
-      - load-tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    env:
-      AWS_REGION: eu-central-1
-    if: ${{ always() }} # required to stop the runner even if the error happened in the previous jobs
-    steps:
-      - name: Configure AWS credentials
-        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
-        with:
-          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
-          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          aws-region: ${{ env.AWS_REGION }}
-      - name: Stop EC2 runner
-        uses: philschmid/philschmid-ec2-github-runner@main
-        with:
-          mode: stop
-          github-token: ${{ secrets.GH_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
-          label: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.label }}
-          ec2-instance-id: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.ec2-instance-id }}