diff --git a/.github/workflows/replay-verify.yaml b/.github/workflows/replay-verify.yaml
index 6932a47edfe7b1..da422c6d9fb082 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/replay-verify.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/replay-verify.yaml
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ jobs:
       TXNS_TO_SKIP: 0
       BACKUP_CONFIG_TEMPLATE_PATH: terraform/helm/fullnode/files/backup/gcs.yaml
       # workflow config
-      RUNS_ON: "runs-on,cpu=16,family=m6id,hdd=500,image=aptos-ubuntu-x64,spot=false,run-id=${{ github.run_id }}"
+      RUNS_ON: "runs-on,cpu=8,family=m6id,hdd=100,image=aptos-ubuntu-x64,spot=false,run-id=${{ github.run_id }}"
       TIMEOUT_MINUTES: 180
 
   replay-mainnet:
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ jobs:
       TXNS_TO_SKIP: 12253479 12277499 148358668
       BACKUP_CONFIG_TEMPLATE_PATH: terraform/helm/fullnode/files/backup/gcs.yaml
       # workflow config
-      RUNS_ON: "runs-on,cpu=16,family=m6id,hdd=500,image=aptos-ubuntu-x64,spot=false,run-id=${{ github.run_id }}"
+      RUNS_ON: "runs-on,cpu=8,family=m6id,hdd=100,image=aptos-ubuntu-x64,spot=false,run-id=${{ github.run_id }}"
       TIMEOUT_MINUTES: 180
 
   test-replay:
@@ -112,5 +112,5 @@ jobs:
       TXNS_TO_SKIP: 0
       BACKUP_CONFIG_TEMPLATE_PATH: terraform/helm/fullnode/files/backup/gcs.yaml
       # workflow config
-      RUNS_ON: "runs-on,cpu=16,family=m6id,hdd=500,image=aptos-ubuntu-x64,spot=false,run-id=${{ github.run_id }}"
+      RUNS_ON: "runs-on,cpu=8,family=m6id,hdd=100,image=aptos-ubuntu-x64,spot=false,run-id=${{ github.run_id }}"
       TIMEOUT_MINUTES: 120 # increase test replay timeout to capture more flaky errors
diff --git a/.github/workflows/workflow-run-replay-verify.yaml b/.github/workflows/workflow-run-replay-verify.yaml
index 3da381a236fe22..abf3a28bdda1b2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/workflow-run-replay-verify.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/workflow-run-replay-verify.yaml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ on:
         description: "The runner to use for the job."
         type: string
         required: true
-        default: "runs-on,cpu=16,family=m6id,hdd=500,image=aptos-ubuntu-x64,spot=false"
+        default: "runs-on,cpu=8,family=m6id,hdd=100,image=aptos-ubuntu-x64,spot=false"
       TIMEOUT_MINUTES:
         description: "Github job timeout in minutes"
         type: number
@@ -74,13 +74,16 @@ on:
         description: "The runner to use for the job."
         type: string
         required: true
-        default: "runs-on,cpu=16,family=m6id,hdd=100,image=aptos-ubuntu-x64,spot=false"
+        default: "runs-on,cpu=8,family=m6id,hdd=100,image=aptos-ubuntu-x64,spot=false"
 
 jobs:
   prepare:
     runs-on: ${{ inputs.RUNS_ON }}
     outputs:
-      ranges: ${{ steps.gen-jobs.outputs.ranges }}
+      ranges0: ${{ steps.gen-jobs.outputs.ranges0 }}
+      ranges1: ${{ steps.gen-jobs.outputs.ranges1 }}
+      ranges2: ${{ steps.gen-jobs.outputs.ranges2 }}
+      ranges3: ${{ steps.gen-jobs.outputs.ranges3 }}
     steps:
       - name: Checkout code
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
@@ -94,7 +97,7 @@ jobs:
           # copy the binary to the root of the repo and cache it there, because rust-setup calls a cache-rust action
           # which cleans up the target directory in its post action
           path: aptos-debugger
-          key: aptos-debugger-${{ inputs.GIT_SHA || github.sha }}
+          key: alden-hack-0914 #aptos-debugger-${{ inputs.GIT_SHA || github.sha }}
 
       - name: Prepare for build if not cached
         if: steps.cache-aptos-debugger-binary.outputs.cache-hit != 'true'
@@ -144,12 +147,16 @@ jobs:
           ./aptos-debugger aptos-db gen-replay-verify-jobs  \
             --metadata-cache-dir ./metadata_cache \
             --command-adapter-config $BACKUP_CONFIG_TEMPLATE_PATH \
-            --output-json-file job_ranges.json \
-            --start-version $HISTORY_START
+            --start-version $HISTORY_START \
+            --output-json-file job_ranges.0.json
+            --output-json-file job_ranges.1.json
+            --output-json-file job_ranges.2.json
+            --output-json-file job_ranges.3.json
 
-          echo "ranges=$(cat job_ranges.json)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-          cat job_ranges.json | jq || true
+          echo "ranges0=$(cat job_ranges.0.json)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "ranges1=$(cat job_ranges.1.json)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "ranges2=$(cat job_ranges.2.json)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          echo "ranges3=$(cat job_ranges.3.json)" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
 
       - name: Cache backup storage config so the replay jobs don't need to checkout entire repo
         uses: actions/cache/save@v4
@@ -157,119 +164,29 @@ jobs:
           path: ${{ inputs.BACKUP_CONFIG_TEMPLATE_PATH }}
           key: backup-config-${{ github.run_id }}
 
-  replay-verify:
+  replay-verify-batch:
     needs: prepare
     timeout-minutes: ${{ inputs.TIMEOUT_MINUTES || 180 }}
     runs-on: ${{ inputs.RUNS_ON }}
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
-      max-parallel: 200
       matrix:
-        range: ${{ fromJson(needs.prepare.outputs.ranges) }}
+        batch: [
+          "${{ steps.prepare.outputs.ranges0 }}",
+          "${{ steps.prepare.outputs.ranges1 }}",
+          "${{ steps.prepare.outputs.ranges2 }}",
+          "${{ steps.prepare.outputs.ranges3 }}",
+        ]
     steps:
-      - name: Parse job - ${{ matrix.range }}
-        id: parse-job
-        shell: bash
-        run: |
-          read name begin end sesc <<< "${{ matrix.range }}"
-          echo name=$name >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo begin=$begin >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo end=$end>> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-          echo desc=$desc>> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
-
-      - name: Load cached aptos-debugger binary
-        uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
-        with:
-          path: aptos-debugger
-          key: aptos-debugger-${{ inputs.GIT_SHA || github.sha }}
-          fail-on-cache-miss: true
-
-      - name: Load cached backup storage metadata cache dir
-        uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
-        with:
-          path: metadata_cache
-          key: metadata-cache-${{ inputs.BUCKET }}/${{ inputs.SUB_DIR }}-
-          fail-on-cache-miss: true
-
-      - name: Load cached backup storage config
-        uses: actions/cache/restore@v4
-        with:
-          path: ${{ inputs.BACKUP_CONFIG_TEMPLATE_PATH }}
-          key: backup-config-${{ github.run_id }}
-          fail-on-cache-miss: true
-
-      - id: auth
-        uses: "google-github-actions/auth@v2"
-        with:
-          workload_identity_provider: ${{ secrets.GCP_WORKLOAD_IDENTITY_PROVIDER }}
-          service_account: ${{ secrets.GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_EMAIL }}
-
-      - name: Install GCloud SDK
-        uses: "google-github-actions/setup-gcloud@v2"
+      - name: Call replay-verify-batch workflow
+        uses: aptos-labs/aptos-core/.github/workflows/workflow-run-replay-verify-batch.yaml@0911-alden-use-gcloud-on-base-image
+        secrets: inherit
         with:
-          version: ">= 418.0.0"
-          install_components: "kubectl,gke-gcloud-auth-plugin"
-
-      - name: phase 1 - restore snapshot, with retries
-        env:
+          RANGES_JSON: ${{ matrix.batch }}
+          GIT_SHA: ${{ inputs.GIT_SHA }}
           BUCKET: ${{ inputs.BUCKET }}
           SUB_DIR: ${{ inputs.SUB_DIR }}
-          HISTORY_START: ${{ inputs.HISTORY_START || '0' }}
-          TXNS_TO_SKIP: ${{ inputs.TXNS_TO_SKIP }}
+          HISTORY_START: ${{ inputs.HISTORY_START }}
           BACKUP_CONFIG_TEMPLATE_PATH: ${{ inputs.BACKUP_CONFIG_TEMPLATE_PATH }}
-        run: |
-          for try in {0..3}
-          do
-            if [ $try -gt 0 ]; then
-              SLEEP=$((10 * $try))
-              echo "sleeping for $SLEEP seconds before retry #$try" >&2
-              sleep $SLEEP
-            fi
-            ./aptos-debugger aptos-db replay-verify \
-              --metadata-cache-dir ./metadata_cache \
-              --command-adapter-config $BACKUP_CONFIG_TEMPLATE_PATH \
-              --txns-to-skip $TXNS_TO_SKIP \
-              --start-version ${{ steps.parse-job.outputs.begin }} \
-              --end-version ${{ steps.parse-job.outputs.begin }} \
-              \
-              --lazy-quit \
-              --enable-storage-sharding \
-              --target-db-dir db \
-              --concurrent-downloads 8 \
-              --replay-concurrency-level 8 \
-              \
-              && exit 0 || true # exit 0 if successful, otherwise retry
-          done
-          exit(1)
-
-      - name: phase 2 - replay-verify transactions, with retries
-        env:
-          BUCKET: ${{ inputs.BUCKET }}
-          SUB_DIR: ${{ inputs.SUB_DIR }}
-          HISTORY_START: ${{ inputs.HISTORY_START || '0' }}
-          TXNS_TO_SKIP: ${{ inputs.TXNS_TO_SKIP }}
-          BACKUP_CONFIG_TEMPLATE_PATH: ${{ inputs.BACKUP_CONFIG_TEMPLATE_PATH }}
-        run: |
-          for try in {0..3}
-          do
-            if [ $try -gt 0 ]; then
-              SLEEP=$((10 * $try))
-              echo "sleeping for $SLEEP seconds before retry #$try" >&2
-              sleep $SLEEP
-            fi
-            ./aptos-debugger aptos-db replay-verify \
-              --metadata-cache-dir ./metadata_cache \
-              --command-adapter-config $BACKUP_CONFIG_TEMPLATE_PATH \
-              --txns-to-skip $TXNS_TO_SKIP \
-              --start-version ${{ steps.parse-job.outputs.begin }} \
-              --end-version ${{ steps.parse-job.outputs.end }} \
-              \
-              --lazy-quit \
-              --enable-storage-sharding \
-              --target-db-dir db \
-              --concurrent-downloads 8 \
-              --replay-concurrency-level 8 \
-              \
-              && exit 0 || true # exit 0 if successful, otherwise retry
-          done
-          exit(1)
+          RUNS_ON: ${{ inputs.RUNS_ON }}
+          TIMEOUT_MINUTES: ${{ inputs.TIMEOUT_MINUTES }}
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