diff --git a/.github/workflows/connector_integration_test_single_dagger.yml b/.github/workflows/connector_integration_test_single_dagger.yml
index 98e56fe17606..8eae8b0d7ec5 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/connector_integration_test_single_dagger.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/connector_integration_test_single_dagger.yml
@@ -10,38 +10,10 @@ on:
     paths:
       - "airbyte-integrations/connectors/**"
 jobs:
-  start-runner:
-    name: "Connectors Integration Test: Start Build EC2 Runner"
-    timeout-minutes: 10
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    outputs:
-      label: ${{ steps.start-ec2-runner.outputs.label }}
-      ec2-instance-id: ${{ steps.start-ec2-runner.outputs.ec2-instance-id }}
-      pipeline-start-timestamp: ${{ steps.get-start-timestamp.outputs.start-timestamp }}
-    steps:
-      - name: Get start timestamp
-        id: get-start-timestamp
-        run: echo "::set-output name=start-timestamp::$(date +%s)"
-      - name: Checkout Airbyte
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Check PAT rate limits
-        run: |
-          ./tools/bin/find_non_rate_limited_PAT \
-            ${{ secrets.GH_PAT_BUILD_RUNNER_OSS }} \
-            ${{ secrets.GH_PAT_BUILD_RUNNER_BACKUP }}
-      - name: Start AWS Runner
-        id: start-ec2-runner
-        uses: ./.github/actions/start-aws-runner
-        with:
-          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.SELF_RUNNER_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
-          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.SELF_RUNNER_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          github-token: ${{ env.PAT }}
-          ec2-instance-type: "c5.2xlarge" # https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/
   connectors_ci:
     name: Connectors CI
     timeout-minutes: 240 # 4 hours
-    needs: start-runner
-    runs-on: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.label }} # run the job on the newly created runner
+    runs-on:  medium-runner
     steps:
       - name: Checkout Airbyte
         uses: actions/checkout@v3
@@ -61,7 +33,16 @@ jobs:
         run: pip install ./tools/ci_connector_ops\[pipelines]\
       - name: Run connectors-ci test-connectors [WORKFLOW DISPATCH]
         if: github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch'
-        run: connectors-ci --is-ci --gha-workflow-run-id=${{ github.run_id }} test-connectors ${{ github.event.inputs.test-connectors-options }}
+        run: |
+          export _EXPERIMENTAL_DAGGER_RUNNER_HOST="unix:///var/run/buildkit/buildkitd.sock"
+          DAGGER_CLI_COMMIT="67c7e7635cf4ea0e446e2fed522a3e314c960f6a"
+          DAGGER_TMP_BINDIR="/tmp/dagger_${DAGGER_CLI_COMMIT}"
+          export _EXPERIMENTAL_DAGGER_CLI_BIN="$DAGGER_TMP_BINDIR/dagger"
+          if [ ! -f  "$_EXPERIMENTAL_DAGGER_CLI_BIN" ]; then
+              mkdir -p "$DAGGER_TMP_BINDIR"
+              curl "https://dl.dagger.io/dagger/main/${DAGGER_CLI_COMMIT}/dagger_${DAGGER_CLI_COMMIT}_$(uname -s | tr A-Z a-z)_$(uname -m | sed s/x86_64/amd64/).tar.gz" | tar xvz -C "$DAGGER_TMP_BINDIR"
+          fi
+          connectors-ci --is-ci --gha-workflow-run-id=${{ github.run_id }} test-connectors ${{ github.event.inputs.test-connectors-options }}
         env:
           GCP_GSM_CREDENTIALS: ${{ secrets.GCP_GSM_CREDENTIALS }}
           AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.STATUS_API_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
@@ -75,7 +56,16 @@ jobs:
           CI_PIPELINE_START_TIMESTAMP: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.pipeline-start-timestamp }}
       - name: Run connectors-ci test-connectors [PULL REQUESTS]
         if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
-        run: connectors-ci --is-ci --gha-workflow-run-id=${{ github.run_id }} test-connectors --modified
+        run: |
+          export _EXPERIMENTAL_DAGGER_RUNNER_HOST="unix:///var/run/buildkit/buildkitd.sock"
+          DAGGER_CLI_COMMIT="67c7e7635cf4ea0e446e2fed522a3e314c960f6a"
+          DAGGER_TMP_BINDIR="/tmp/dagger_${DAGGER_CLI_COMMIT}"
+          export _EXPERIMENTAL_DAGGER_CLI_BIN="$DAGGER_TMP_BINDIR/dagger"
+          if [ ! -f  "$_EXPERIMENTAL_DAGGER_CLI_BIN" ]; then
+              mkdir -p "$DAGGER_TMP_BINDIR"
+              curl "https://dl.dagger.io/dagger/main/${DAGGER_CLI_COMMIT}/dagger_${DAGGER_CLI_COMMIT}_$(uname -s | tr A-Z a-z)_$(uname -m | sed s/x86_64/amd64/).tar.gz" | tar xvz -C "$DAGGER_TMP_BINDIR"
+          fi
+          connectors-ci --is-ci --gha-workflow-run-id=${{ github.run_id }} test-connectors --modified
         env:
           GCP_GSM_CREDENTIALS: ${{ secrets.GCP_GSM_CREDENTIALS }}
           AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.STATUS_API_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
@@ -87,35 +77,3 @@ jobs:
           CI_GIT_REVISION: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
           CI_CONTEXT: "pull_request"
           CI_PIPELINE_START_TIMESTAMP: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.pipeline-start-timestamp }}
-
-  stop-runner:
-    name: "Connectors Integration Test: Stop Build EC2 Runner"
-    timeout-minutes: 10
-    needs:
-      - start-runner # required to get output from the start-runner job
-      - connectors_ci # required to wait when the main job is done
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    # Always is required to stop the runner even if the previous job has errors. However always() runs even if the previous step is skipped.
-    # Thus, we check for skipped here.
-    if: ${{ always() && needs.start-runner.result != 'skipped'}}
-    steps:
-      - name: Configure AWS credentials
-        uses: aws-actions/configure-aws-credentials@v1
-        with:
-          aws-access-key-id: ${{ secrets.SELF_RUNNER_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
-          aws-secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.SELF_RUNNER_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
-          aws-region: us-east-2
-      - name: Checkout Airbyte
-        uses: actions/checkout@v3
-      - name: Check PAT rate limits
-        run: |
-          ./tools/bin/find_non_rate_limited_PAT \
-            ${{ secrets.GH_PAT_BUILD_RUNNER_OSS }} \
-            ${{ secrets.GH_PAT_BUILD_RUNNER_BACKUP }}
-      - name: Stop EC2 runner
-        uses: supertopher/ec2-github-runner@base64v1.0.10
-        with:
-          mode: stop
-          github-token: ${{ env.PAT }}
-          label: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.label }}
-          ec2-instance-id: ${{ needs.start-runner.outputs.ec2-instance-id }}