diff --git a/.github/workflows/approved-for-ci-run.yml b/.github/workflows/approved-for-ci-run.yml
index 5b21011b83..ae2f173b47 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/approved-for-ci-run.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/approved-for-ci-run.yml
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ jobs:
                                                        --body-file "body.md" \
                                                        --head "${BRANCH}" \
                                                        --base "main" \
+                                                       --label "run-e2e-tests-in-draft" \
                                                        --draft
           fi
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
index f12f020634..078916e1ea 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ env:
   AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}
   AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_KEY_DEV }}
   # A concurrency group that we use for e2e-tests runs, matches `concurrency.group` above with `github.repository` as a prefix
-  E2E_CONCURRENCY_GROUP: ${{ github.repository }}-${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.ref_name }}-${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && github.sha || 'anysha' }}
+  E2E_CONCURRENCY_GROUP: ${{ github.repository }}-e2e-tests-${{ github.ref_name }}-${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && github.sha || 'anysha' }}
 
 jobs:
   check-permissions:
@@ -692,50 +692,10 @@ jobs:
             })
 
   trigger-e2e-tests:
+    if: ${{ !github.event.pull_request.draft || contains( github.event.pull_request.labels.*.name, 'run-e2e-tests-in-draft') || github.ref_name == 'main' || github.ref_name == 'release' }}
     needs: [ check-permissions, promote-images, tag ]
-    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, small ]
-    container:
-      image: 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/base:pinned
-      options: --init
-    steps:
-      - name: Set PR's status to pending and request a remote CI test
-        run: |
-          # For pull requests, GH Actions set "github.sha" variable to point at a fake merge commit
-          # but we need to use a real sha of a latest commit in the PR's branch for the e2e job,
-          # to place a job run status update later.
-          COMMIT_SHA=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
-          # For non-PR kinds of runs, the above will produce an empty variable, pick the original sha value for those
-          COMMIT_SHA=${COMMIT_SHA:-${{ github.sha }}}
-
-          REMOTE_REPO="${{ github.repository_owner }}/cloud"
-
-          curl -f -X POST \
-          https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository }}/statuses/$COMMIT_SHA \
-          -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
-          --user "${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}" \
-          --data \
-            "{
-              \"state\": \"pending\",
-              \"context\": \"neon-cloud-e2e\",
-              \"description\": \"[$REMOTE_REPO] Remote CI job is about to start\"
-            }"
-
-          curl -f -X POST \
-          https://api.github.com/repos/$REMOTE_REPO/actions/workflows/testing.yml/dispatches \
-          -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
-          --user "${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}" \
-          --data \
-            "{
-              \"ref\": \"main\",
-              \"inputs\": {
-                \"ci_job_name\": \"neon-cloud-e2e\",
-                \"commit_hash\": \"$COMMIT_SHA\",
-                \"remote_repo\": \"${{ github.repository }}\",
-                \"storage_image_tag\": \"${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}\",
-                \"compute_image_tag\": \"${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}\",
-                \"concurrency_group\": \"${{ env.E2E_CONCURRENCY_GROUP }}\"
-              }
-            }"
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/trigger-e2e-tests.yml
+    secrets: inherit
 
   neon-image:
     needs: [ check-permissions, build-buildtools-image, tag ]
diff --git a/.github/workflows/trigger-e2e-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/trigger-e2e-tests.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2776033805
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/trigger-e2e-tests.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+name: Trigger E2E Tests
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    types:
+      - ready_for_review
+  workflow_call:
+
+defaults:
+  run:
+    shell: bash -euxo pipefail {0}
+    
+env:
+  # A concurrency group that we use for e2e-tests runs, matches `concurrency.group` above with `github.repository` as a prefix
+  E2E_CONCURRENCY_GROUP: ${{ github.repository }}-e2e-tests-${{ github.ref_name }}-${{ github.ref_name == 'main' && github.sha || 'anysha' }}
+  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_DEV }}
+  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_KEY_DEV }}
+
+jobs:
+  cancel-previous-e2e-tests:
+    if: github.event_name == 'pull_request'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Cancel previous e2e-tests runs for this PR
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          gh workflow --repo neondatabase/cloud \
+            run cancel-previous-in-concurrency-group.yml \
+              --field concurrency_group="${{ env.E2E_CONCURRENCY_GROUP }}"
+
+  tag:
+    runs-on: [ ubuntu-latest ]
+    outputs:
+      build-tag: ${{ steps.build-tag.outputs.tag }}
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Get build tag
+        env:
+          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
+          CURRENT_BRANCH: ${{ github.head_ref || github.ref_name }}
+          CURRENT_SHA: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha || github.sha }}
+        run: |
+          if [[ "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" == "main" ]]; then
+            echo "tag=$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          elif [[ "$GITHUB_REF_NAME" == "release" ]]; then
+            echo "tag=release-$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          else
+            echo "GITHUB_REF_NAME (value '$GITHUB_REF_NAME') is not set to either 'main' or 'release'"
+            BUILD_AND_TEST_RUN_ID=$(gh run list -b $CURRENT_BRANCH -c $CURRENT_SHA -w 'Build and Test' -L 1 --json databaseId --jq '.[].databaseId')
+            echo "tag=$BUILD_AND_TEST_RUN_ID" | tee -a $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+          fi
+        id: build-tag
+
+  trigger-e2e-tests:
+    needs: [ tag ]
+    runs-on: [ self-hosted, gen3, small ]
+    env:
+      TAG: ${{ needs.tag.outputs.build-tag }}
+    container:
+      image: 369495373322.dkr.ecr.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/base:pinned
+      options: --init
+    steps:
+      - name: check if ecr image are present
+        run: |
+          for REPO in neon compute-tools compute-node-v14 vm-compute-node-v14 compute-node-v15 vm-compute-node-v15 compute-node-v16 vm-compute-node-v16; do
+            OUTPUT=$(aws ecr describe-images --repository-name ${REPO} --region eu-central-1 --query "imageDetails[?imageTags[?contains(@, '${TAG}')]]" --output text)
+            if [ "$OUTPUT" == "" ]; then
+              echo "$REPO with image tag $TAG not found" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
+              exit 1
+            fi
+          done
+
+      - name: Set PR's status to pending and request a remote CI test
+        run: |
+          # For pull requests, GH Actions set "github.sha" variable to point at a fake merge commit
+          # but we need to use a real sha of a latest commit in the PR's branch for the e2e job,
+          # to place a job run status update later.
+          COMMIT_SHA=${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
+          # For non-PR kinds of runs, the above will produce an empty variable, pick the original sha value for those
+          COMMIT_SHA=${COMMIT_SHA:-${{ github.sha }}}
+
+          REMOTE_REPO="${{ github.repository_owner }}/cloud"
+
+          curl -f -X POST \
+          https://api.github.com/repos/${{ github.repository }}/statuses/$COMMIT_SHA \
+          -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
+          --user "${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}" \
+          --data \
+            "{
+              \"state\": \"pending\",
+              \"context\": \"neon-cloud-e2e\",
+              \"description\": \"[$REMOTE_REPO] Remote CI job is about to start\"
+            }"
+
+          curl -f -X POST \
+          https://api.github.com/repos/$REMOTE_REPO/actions/workflows/testing.yml/dispatches \
+          -H "Accept: application/vnd.github.v3+json" \
+          --user "${{ secrets.CI_ACCESS_TOKEN }}" \
+          --data \
+            "{
+              \"ref\": \"main\",
+              \"inputs\": {
+                \"ci_job_name\": \"neon-cloud-e2e\",
+                \"commit_hash\": \"$COMMIT_SHA\",
+                \"remote_repo\": \"${{ github.repository }}\",
+                \"storage_image_tag\": \"${TAG}\",
+                \"compute_image_tag\": \"${TAG}\",
+                \"concurrency_group\": \"${{ env.E2E_CONCURRENCY_GROUP }}\"
+              }
+            }"
+ 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 7e177693fa..2e447fba47 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ _An instruction for maintainers_
 - If and only if it looks **safe** (i.e. it doesn't contain any malicious code which could expose secrets or harm the CI), then:
     - Press the "Approve and run" button in GitHub UI
     - Add the `approved-for-ci-run` label to the PR
+    - Currently draft PR will skip e2e test (only for internal contributors). After turning the PR 'Ready to Review' CI will trigger e2e test
+      - Add `run-e2e-tests-in-draft` label to run e2e test in draft PR (override above behaviour)
+      - The `approved-for-ci-run` workflow will add `run-e2e-tests-in-draft` automatically to run e2e test for external contributors
 
 Repeat all steps after any change to the PR.
 - When the changes are ready to get merged — merge the original PR (not the internal one)