diff --git a/.github/workflows/e2e-arm64-nightly.yaml b/.github/workflows/e2e-arm64-nightly.yaml
deleted file mode 100644
index 45ebbc194b94..000000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/e2e-arm64-nightly.yaml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
----
-name: E2E Arm64 Nightly
-permissions: read-all
-on:
-  # schedules always run against the main branch, hence we have to create separate jobs
-  # with individual checkout actions for each of the active release branches
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '30 1 * * *' # runs daily at 1:30 am.
-
-  # workflow_dispatch enables manual testing of this job by maintainers
-  workflow_dispatch:
-
-jobs:
-  main-arm64:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/e2e-arm64-template.yaml
-    with:
-      etcdBranch: main
-  release-35-arm64:
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/e2e-arm64-template.yaml
-    with:
-      etcdBranch: release-3.5
diff --git a/.github/workflows/e2e-arm64-template.yaml b/.github/workflows/e2e-arm64.yaml
similarity index 88%
rename from .github/workflows/e2e-arm64-template.yaml
rename to .github/workflows/e2e-arm64.yaml
index 2fad70397865..86fc5bb2c131 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/e2e-arm64-template.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/e2e-arm64.yaml
@@ -1,11 +1,6 @@
 ---
 name: Reusable Arm64 E2E Workflow
-on:
-  workflow_call:
-    inputs:
-      etcdBranch:
-        required: true
-        type: string
+on: [push, pull_request]
 permissions: read-all
 jobs:
   test:
@@ -20,7 +15,7 @@ jobs:
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@b4ffde65f46336ab88eb53be808477a3936bae11 # v4.1.1
         with:
-          ref: "${{ inputs.etcdBranch }}"
+          ref: "main"
       - id: goversion
         run: echo "goversion=$(cat .go-version)" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
       - uses: actions/setup-go@93397bea11091df50f3d7e59dc26a7711a8bcfbe # v4.1.0