diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index b92d3ec25c15..587288211913 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 name: Continuous Integration
-# Needed for gcloud because as of Nov 2022, gcloud only supports python 3.5-3.9
-# https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install#supported_python_versions
-# https://github.com/google-github-actions/setup-gcloud/issues/381#issuecomment-955631107
-# ubuntu-20.04 comes with python3.8. As a result, we can tell gcloud to use that.
 env:
- CLOUDSDK_PYTHON: python3.8
+ CLOUDSDK_PYTHON: python3.11
 on:
   push:
     branches:
@@ -12,11 +8,7 @@ on:
   pull_request:
 jobs:
   python_tests:
-    # Need to use 20.04 because ubuntu-latest uses ubuntu-22.04.
-    # 22.04 comes with python 3.10 and that does not work with gcloud.
-    # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners
-    # Refer to CLOUDSDK_PYTHON above for more details.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/web_tests.yml b/.github/workflows/web_tests.yml
index 381e9dbb9d35..4b845cada8cd 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/web_tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/web_tests.yml
@@ -1,10 +1,6 @@
 name: Continuous Integration Web Tests
-# Needed for gcloud because as of Nov 2022, gcloud only supports python 3.5-3.9
-# https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install#supported_python_versions
-# https://github.com/google-github-actions/setup-gcloud/issues/381#issuecomment-955631107
-# ubuntu-20.04 comes with python3.8. As a result, we can tell gcloud to use that.
 env:
- CLOUDSDK_PYTHON: python3.8
+ CLOUDSDK_PYTHON: python3.11
 on:
   push:
     branches:
@@ -13,11 +9,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   web_tests:
-    # Need to use 20.04 because ubuntu-latest uses ubuntu-22.04.
-    # 22.04 comes with python 3.10 and that does not work with gcloud.
-    # https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners
-    # Refer to CLOUDSDK_PYTHON above for more details.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 
     strategy:
       matrix: