diff --git a/.github/workflows/run-end-to-end.yml b/.github/workflows/run-end-to-end.yml
index 4ea2195ced..8dd468251a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/run-end-to-end.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/run-end-to-end.yml
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ env:
 jobs:
   main:
     name: "${{ inputs.weblog }} ${{ inputs.weblog_instance }}"
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ${{ (contains(inputs.scenarios, 'CROSSED_TRACING_LIBRARIES') || contains(inputs.scenarios, 'INTEGRATIONS')) && 'ubuntu-latest-16-cores' || 'ubuntu-latest' }}
     env:
       SYSTEM_TESTS_REPORT_ENVIRONMENT: ${{ inputs.ci_environment }}
       SYSTEM_TESTS_REPORT_RUN_URL: ${{ github.server_url }}/${{ github.repository }}/actions/runs/${{ github.run_id }}
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Pull images
       uses: ./.github/actions/pull_images
       with:
+        cleanup: "false"
         library: ${{ inputs.library }}
         weblog: ${{ inputs.weblog }}
         scenarios: ${{ inputs.scenarios }}
diff --git a/.github/workflows/run-external-processing.yml b/.github/workflows/run-external-processing.yml
index 090d72924d..775c3a4f32 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/run-external-processing.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/run-external-processing.yml
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Pull images
         uses: ./.github/actions/pull_images
         with:
+          cleanup: "false"
           library: golang
           weblog: golang-dummy
           scenarios: '["EXTERNAL_PROCESSING", "EXTERNAL_PROCESSING_BLOCKING"]'