diff --git a/.github/workflows/cypress_workflow.yml b/.github/workflows/cypress_workflow.yml
index 14975e23b17a..e8944a86e484 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cypress_workflow.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cypress_workflow.yml
@@ -25,13 +25,24 @@ on:
         description: 'PR Number (optional)'
         required: false
         type: number
+      OS_URL:
+        description: 'OpenSearch release artifact'
+        required: false
+        type: string
+      OSD_URL:
+        description: 'OpenSearch Dashboards release artifact'
+        required: false
+        type: string
 
 env:
   TEST_REPO: ${{ inputs.test_repo != '' && inputs.test_repo || 'opensearch-project/opensearch-dashboards-functional-test' }}
   TEST_BRANCH: "${{ inputs.test_branch != '' && inputs.test_branch || github.base_ref }}"
   FTR_PATH: 'ftr'
-  START_CMD: 'node ../scripts/opensearch_dashboards --dev --no-base-path --no-watch --savedObjects.maxImportPayloadBytes=10485760 --server.maxPayloadBytes=1759977 --logging.json=false --data.search.aggs.shardDelay.enabled=true'
-  OPENSEARCH_SNAPSHOT_CMD: 'node ../scripts/opensearch snapshot -E cluster.routing.allocation.disk.threshold_enabled=false'
+  RELEASE_PATH: 'release'
+  # START_CMD: 'node ../scripts/opensearch_dashboards --dev --no-base-path --no-watch --savedObjects.maxImportPayloadBytes=10485760 --server.maxPayloadBytes=1759977 --logging.json=false --data.search.aggs.shardDelay.enabled=true'
+  # OPENSEARCH_SNAPSHOT_CMD: 'node ../scripts/opensearch snapshot -E cluster.routing.allocation.disk.threshold_enabled=false'
+  START_CMD: './${{ env.RELEASE_PATH }}/opensearch-dashboards/bin/opensearch-dashboards --savedObjects.maxImportPayloadBytes=10485760 --server.maxPayloadBytes=1759977 --logging.json=false --data.search.aggs.shardDelay.enabled=true'
+  OPENSEARCH_SNAPSHOT_CMD: './${{ env.RELEASE_PATH }}/opensearch/opensearch-tar-install.sh -E cluster.routing.allocation.disk.threshold_enabled=false'
   CYPRESS_BROWSER: 'chromium'
   CYPRESS_VISBUILDER_ENABLED: true
   CYPRESS_DATASOURCE_MANAGEMENT_ENABLED: false
@@ -40,6 +51,7 @@ env:
   COMMENT_TAG: '[MANUAL CYPRESS TEST RUN RESULTS]'
   COMMENT_SUCCESS_MSG: ':white_check_mark: Cypress test run succeeded!'
   COMMENT_FAILURE_MSG: ':x: Cypress test run failed!'
+  OPENSEARCH_INITIAL_ADMIN_PASSWORD: 'myStrongPassword123!'
 
 jobs:
   cypress-tests:
@@ -95,11 +107,19 @@ jobs:
           npm uninstall -g yarn
           npm i -g yarn@1.22.10
 
-      - name: Run bootstrap
-        run: yarn osd bootstrap
+      # - name: Run bootstrap
+      #   run: yarn osd bootstrap
+
+      # - name: Build plugins
+      #   run: node scripts/build_opensearch_dashboards_platform_plugins --no-examples --workers 12
 
-      - name: Build plugins
-        run: node scripts/build_opensearch_dashboards_platform_plugins --no-examples --workers 12
+      - name: Get OpenSearch Dashboards release
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p ${{ env.RELEASE_PATH }}
+          curl -L ${{ inputs.OSD_URL }} -o ${{ env.RELEASE_PATH }}/opensearch-dashboards.tar.gz
+          tar -xzf ${{ env.RELEASE_PATH }}/opensearch-dashboards.tar.gz -C ${{ env.RELEASE_PATH }}
+          curl -L ${{ inputs.OS_URL }} -o ${{ env.RELEASE_PATH }}/opensearch.tar.gz
+          tar -xzf ${{ env.RELEASE_PATH }}/opensearch.tar.gz -C ${{ env.RELEASE_PATH }}
 
       - name: Checkout
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
@@ -146,8 +166,8 @@ jobs:
         with:
           working-directory: ${{ env.FTR_PATH }}
           start: ${{ env.OPENSEARCH_SNAPSHOT_CMD }}, ${{ env.START_CMD }}
-          wait-on: 'http://localhost:9200, http://localhost:5601'
-          command: yarn cypress:run-without-security --browser ${{ env.CYPRESS_BROWSER }} --spec ${{ env.SPEC }}
+          wait-on: 'https://localhost:9200 -u admin:${{ env.OPENSEARCH_INITIAL_ADMIN_PASSWORD }} -k, http://localhost:5601'
+          command: yarn cypress:run-with-security --browser ${{ env.CYPRESS_BROWSER }} --spec ${{ env.SPEC }}
 
       # Screenshots are only captured on failure, will change this once we do visual regression tests
       - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3