diff --git a/.github/workflows/weekly-cron-test.yml b/.github/workflows/weekly-cron-test.yml
index 4cd1376f70..314c38163c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/weekly-cron-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/weekly-cron-test.yml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ name: Weekly CNI tests
 
 on:
   schedule:
-    - cron: "0 16 * * 1"  # every Monday
+    - cron: "0 16 * * 2"  # every Tuesday
 
 permissions:
   contents: read
diff --git a/scripts/lib/cluster.sh b/scripts/lib/cluster.sh
index 29fb276623..4e8b767c27 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/cluster.sh
+++ b/scripts/lib/cluster.sh
@@ -66,14 +66,18 @@ function up-test-cluster() {
 }
 
 function up-kops-cluster {
-    aws s3api create-bucket --bucket kops-cni-test-eks --region $AWS_DEFAULT_REGION --create-bucket-configuration LocationConstraint=$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
-    curl -LO https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/download/$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/kops/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)/kops-linux-amd64
+    KOPS_S3_BUCKET=kops-cni-test-eks-$AWS_ACCOUNT_ID
+    echo "Using $KOPS_S3_BUCKET as kops state store"
+    aws s3api create-bucket --bucket $KOPS_S3_BUCKET --region $AWS_DEFAULT_REGION --create-bucket-configuration LocationConstraint=$AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
+    kops_version=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/kops/releases/latest | grep tag_name | cut -d '"' -f 4)
+    echo "Using kops version $kops_version"
+    curl -LO https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/releases/download/$kops_version/kops-linux-amd64
     chmod +x kops-linux-amd64
     mkdir -p ~/kops_bin
     KOPS_BIN=~/kops_bin/kops
     mv kops-linux-amd64 $KOPS_BIN
     CLUSTER_NAME=kops-cni-test-cluster-${TEST_ID}.k8s.local
-    export KOPS_STATE_STORE=s3://kops-cni-test-eks
+    export KOPS_STATE_STORE=s3://${KOPS_S3_BUCKET}
 
     SSH_KEYS=~/.ssh/devopsinuse
     if [ ! -f "$SSH_KEYS" ]
@@ -87,6 +91,7 @@ function up-kops-cluster {
     $KOPS_BIN create cluster \
     --zones ${AWS_DEFAULT_REGION}a,${AWS_DEFAULT_REGION}b \
     --networking amazon-vpc-routed-eni \
+    --container-runtime docker \
     --node-count 2 \
     --ssh-public-key=~/.ssh/devopsinuse.pub \
     --kubernetes-version ${K8S_VERSION} \
@@ -95,10 +100,13 @@ function up-kops-cluster {
     sleep 100
     $KOPS_BIN export kubeconfig --admin
     sleep 10
-    while [[ ! $($KOPS_BIN validate cluster | grep "is ready") ]]
+    MAX_RETRIES=15
+    RETRY_ATTEMPT=0
+    while [[ ! $($KOPS_BIN validate cluster | grep "is ready") && $RETRY_ATTEMPT -lt $MAX_RETRIES ]]
     do
-        sleep 5
-        echo "Waiting for cluster validation"
+        sleep 60
+        let RETRY_ATTEMPT=RETRY_ATTEMPT+1
+        echo "In attempt# $RETRY_ATTEMPT, waiting for cluster validation"
     done
     kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s/${MANIFEST_CNI_VERSION}/config/master/cni-metrics-helper.yaml
 }
diff --git a/scripts/lib/integration.sh b/scripts/lib/integration.sh
index bc1ee8f4fa..697a39c6ea 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/integration.sh
+++ b/scripts/lib/integration.sh
@@ -11,12 +11,10 @@ function run_kops_conformance() {
     done
     echo "Updated!"
 
-    GOPATH=$(go env GOPATH)
-    go install github.com/onsi/ginkgo/ginkgo
-    wget -qO- https://dl.k8s.io/v$K8S_VERSION/kubernetes-test.tar.gz | tar -zxvf - --strip-components=4 -C /tmp  kubernetes/platforms/linux/amd64/e2e.test
+    wget -qO- https://dl.k8s.io/v$K8S_VERSION/kubernetes-test-linux-amd64.tar.gz | tar -zxvf - --strip-components=3 -C /tmp  kubernetes/test/bin/e2e.test
 
-    $GOPATH/bin/ginkgo -p --focus="Conformance"  --failFast --flakeAttempts 2 \
-    --skip="(should support remote command execution over websockets)|(should support retrieving logs from the container over websockets)|(Basic StatefulSet functionality [StatefulSetBasic])|\[Slow\]|\[Serial\]" /tmp/e2e.test -- --kubeconfig=$KUBECONFIG
+    /tmp/e2e.test --ginkgo.focus="Conformance" --kubeconfig=$KUBECONFIG --ginkgo.failFast --ginkgo.flakeAttempts 2 \
+    --ginkgo.skip="(should support remote command execution over websockets)|(should support retrieving logs from the container over websockets)|(Basic StatefulSet functionality [StatefulSetBasic])|\[Slow\]|\[Serial\]"
 
     /tmp/e2e.test --ginkgo.focus="\[Serial\].*Conformance" --kubeconfig=$KUBECONFIG --ginkgo.failFast --ginkgo.flakeAttempts 2 \
     --ginkgo.skip="(should support remote command execution over websockets)|(should support retrieving logs from the container over websockets)|\[Slow\]"
diff --git a/scripts/run-integration-tests.sh b/scripts/run-integration-tests.sh
index d883b8000b..e72e3f4ae5 100755
--- a/scripts/run-integration-tests.sh
+++ b/scripts/run-integration-tests.sh
@@ -127,10 +127,11 @@ aws ecr get-login-password --region $AWS_DEFAULT_REGION | docker login --usernam
 ensure_ecr_repo "$AWS_ACCOUNT_ID" "$AWS_ECR_REPO_NAME"
 ensure_ecr_repo "$AWS_ACCOUNT_ID" "$AWS_INIT_ECR_REPO_NAME"
 
-# Check to see if the image already exists in the Docker repository, and if
+# Check to see if the image already exists in the ECR repository, and if
 # not, check out the CNI source code for that image tag, build the CNI
 # image and push it to the Docker repository
-if [[ $(docker images -q "$IMAGE_NAME:$TEST_IMAGE_VERSION" 2> /dev/null) ]]; then
+ecr_image_query_result=$(aws ecr batch-get-image --repository-name=amazon-k8s-cni --image-ids imageTag=$TEST_IMAGE_VERSION --query 'images[].imageId.imageTag' --region us-west-2)
+if [[ $ecr_image_query_result != "[]" ]]; then
     echo "CNI image $IMAGE_NAME:$TEST_IMAGE_VERSION already exists in repository. Skipping image build..."
     DOCKER_BUILD_DURATION=0
 else
diff --git a/scripts/test/config/perf-cluster.yml b/scripts/test/config/perf-cluster.yml
index 092b85fd28..fe93cef830 100644
--- a/scripts/test/config/perf-cluster.yml
+++ b/scripts/test/config/perf-cluster.yml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ managedNodeGroups:
 
   - name: cni-test-multi-node-mng
     instanceType: m5.xlarge
-    desiredCapacity: 1
+    desiredCapacity: 99
     minSize: 1
     maxSize: 100
     iam: