diff --git a/.github/workflows/Benchmarks.yml b/.github/workflows/Benchmarks.yml
index 88d5aad03..4f412349b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/Benchmarks.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/Benchmarks.yml
@@ -66,3 +66,4 @@ jobs:
           name: benchmarks_${{runner.os}}_${{matrix.hypervisor}}_${{ matrix.cpu }}
           path: ./target/criterion/
           if-no-files-found: error
+          retention-days: 5
diff --git a/.github/workflows/CleanUpReleasesAndPackages.yml b/.github/workflows/CleanUpReleasesAndPackages.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 22b9badd6..000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/CleanUpReleasesAndPackages.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://json.schemastore.org/github-workflow.json
-
-# This job cleans up old pre-releases and pre-releases packages retaining the last 40 versions
-
-name: Clean up old pre-releases and packages and artifacts
-on:
-  schedule:
-    - cron: "0 8 * * 1" # run at 8am every Monday
-  workflow_dispatch: # allow manual triggering
-
-jobs:
-  cleanup:
-    name: Clean up old pre-releases and packages
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:
-      actions: write  # required for reading & deleting github actions artifacts
-      contents: write  # required for reading and deleting releases
-
-    steps:
-
-      - name: Delete old 'Hyperlight' releases
-        uses: sgpublic/delete-release-action@v1.2
-        with:
-          pre-release-drop: true
-          pre-release-keep-count: 5
-          pre-release-drop-tag: true
-          draft-drop: false
-        env:
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
-
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v6
-
-      - name: Delete old Github Actions Artifacts
-        env:
-          GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        run: ./dev/clean-github-artifacts.sh
diff --git a/.github/workflows/dep_fuzzing.yml b/.github/workflows/dep_fuzzing.yml
index 456e1f405..8b2bf8557 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dep_fuzzing.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dep_fuzzing.yml
@@ -56,3 +56,4 @@ jobs:
         with:
           name: fuzz-crash-artifacts
           path: fuzz/artifacts/
+          retention-days: 28
diff --git a/dev/clean-github-artifacts.sh b/dev/clean-github-artifacts.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index d344ce0ae..000000000
--- a/dev/clean-github-artifacts.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# Cleans up artifacts older than 7 days, except for release artifacts.
-
-set -o errexit
-set -o nounset
-set -o pipefail
-
-CUTOFF_DATE=$(date --date='7 days ago' +%s) # the cutoff up to which we delete artifacts
-echo "Querying for artifacts older than $(date --date="@$CUTOFF_DATE")..."
-
-# gets artifacts and writes them to a file in the format <artifact_id>,<size_in_bytes>
-gh api repos/hyperlight-dev/hyperlight/actions/artifacts?per_page=100 --paginate |
-	jq -crs --arg date "$CUTOFF_DATE" 'map(.artifacts) |
-		flatten | .[] |
-		select((.created_at | fromdate) < ($date | tonumber) and (.workflow_run.head_branch | test("(release/)?v\\d+\\.\\d+\\.\\d+") | not)) |
-		"\(.id),\(.size_in_bytes)"' > HYPERLIGHT_ARTIFACTS_TO_DELETE.txt
-awk -F',' '{ sum += $2 }END{ printf "Deleting %d artifacts taking up %d bytes.\n", NR, sum }' HYPERLIGHT_ARTIFACTS_TO_DELETE.txt
-# deletes each artifact in the file
-cut -d "," -f 1 < HYPERLIGHT_ARTIFACTS_TO_DELETE.txt | xargs -I{} gh api --method DELETE /repos/hyperlight-dev/hyperlight/actions/artifacts/{}
-rm -f HYPERLIGHT_ARTIFACTS_TO_DELETE.txt
-echo "Deletion complete."