diff --git a/.github/workflows/emailsender-central-compatibility.yaml b/.github/workflows/emailsender-central-compatibility.yaml
index 84ceb333c7..6f4aed4e90 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/emailsender-central-compatibility.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/emailsender-central-compatibility.yaml
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ on:
       - 'deploy/charts/emailsender/**'
       - 'scripts/**'
       - '.github/workflows/emailsender-central-compatibility.yaml'
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
   e2e-test-on-kind:
@@ -29,10 +32,6 @@ jobs:
       contents: read
     environment: development
     steps:
-      - name: Cancel Previous Runs
-        uses: n1hility/cancel-previous-runs@v3
-        with:
-          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
       - name: Set up Go
         uses: actions/setup-go@v6
         with:
@@ -55,7 +54,7 @@ jobs:
         with:
           path: acs-fleet-manager
           fetch-depth: 0
-      - name: Create Kind cluster"
+      - name: Create Kind cluster
         uses: helm/kind-action@v1
         with:
           cluster_name: kind
diff --git a/scripts/ci/central_compatibility/run_compatibility_test.sh b/scripts/ci/central_compatibility/run_compatibility_test.sh
index 0151f9ea21..32947414bc 100755
--- a/scripts/ci/central_compatibility/run_compatibility_test.sh
+++ b/scripts/ci/central_compatibility/run_compatibility_test.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ source "$ROOT_DIR/dev/env/scripts/lib.sh"
 
 function pull_to_kind() {
   local img=$1
-  local retry="${2:-5}"
+  local imgname=$2
+  local retry="${3:-5}"
   local backoff=30
 
   for _ in $(seq "$retry"); do
@@ -31,11 +32,17 @@ function pull_to_kind() {
     sleep "$backoff"
   done
 
-  kind load docker-image "${img}"
+  docker save --platform amd64 "$img" -o "$IMG_TAR_DIR/$imgname.tar"
+  kind load image-archive "$IMG_TAR_DIR/$imgname.tar"
 }
 
 make --no-print-directory -C "$ROOT_DIR" image/build/emailsender
-kind load docker-image "$(make --no-print-directory -C "$ROOT_DIR" image-tag/emailsender)"
+
+IMG_TAR_DIR="$(mktemp -d)"
+
+EMAILSENDER_IMAGE="$(make --silent --no-print-directory -C "$ROOT_DIR" image-tag/emailsender)"
+docker save --platform amd64 "$EMAILSENDER_IMAGE" -o "$IMG_TAR_DIR/emailsender.tar"
+kind load image-archive "$IMG_TAR_DIR/emailsender.tar"
 
 kubectl create ns $EMAILSENDER_NS -o yaml --dry-run=client | kubectl apply -f -
 kubectl create ns $CENTRAL_NS -o yaml --dry-run=client | kubectl apply -f -
@@ -51,7 +58,7 @@ GITHUB_REPOSITORY=${GITHUB_REPOSITORY:-stackrox/acs-fleet-manager}
 log "Running for repository: $GITHUB_REPOSITORY"
 if [ "$GITHUB_REPOSITORY" = "stackrox/stackrox" ]; then
   STACKROX_DIR="$(cd "$ROOT_DIR/../stackrox" && pwd)"
-  ACS_VERSION="$(make --no-print-directory -C "$STACKROX_DIR" tag)"
+  ACS_VERSION="$(make --silent --no-print-directory -C "$STACKROX_DIR" tag)"
 else
   ACS_VERSION="$(git ls-remote --tags https://github.com/stackrox/stackrox | grep -E '.*-nightly-[0-9]{8}$' | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's|refs/tags/||' | sort -V | tail -n 1)"
 fi
@@ -59,21 +66,18 @@ fi
 log "ACS version: $ACS_VERSION"
 
 IMG_REPO="quay.io/rhacs-eng"
-MAIN_IMG_NAME="$IMG_REPO/main"
-CENTRAL_DB_IMG_NAME="$IMG_REPO/central-db"
-
-IMAGES_TO_PULL=(
-  "$MAIN_IMG_NAME:$ACS_VERSION"
-  "$CENTRAL_DB_IMG_NAME:$ACS_VERSION"
+IMG_NAMES=(
+  "main"
+  "central-db"
 )
-
+MAIN_IMG="$IMG_REPO/main:$ACS_VERSION"
 IMG_WAIT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS="${IMG_WAIT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS:-1200}"
-for img in "${IMAGES_TO_PULL[@]}"; do
-  wait_for_img "$img" "$IMG_WAIT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS"
-  pull_to_kind "$img"
+for imgname in "${IMG_NAMES[@]}"; do
+  wait_for_img "$IMG_REPO/$imgname:$ACS_VERSION" "$IMG_WAIT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS"
+  pull_to_kind "$IMG_REPO/$imgname:$ACS_VERSION" "$imgname"
 done
 
-ROXCTL="docker run --rm --user $(id -u):$(id -g) -v $(pwd):/tmp/stackrox-charts/ $MAIN_IMG_NAME:$ACS_VERSION"
+ROXCTL="docker run --rm --user $(id -u):$(id -g) -v $(pwd):/tmp/stackrox-charts/ $MAIN_IMG"
 # --remove to make this script rerunnable on a local machine
 $ROXCTL helm output central-services --image-defaults opensource --remove --output-dir /tmp/stackrox-charts/central-chart