diff --git a/provider-ci/internal/pkg/templates/bridged-provider/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/provider-ci/internal/pkg/templates/bridged-provider/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index b8fdf9892..bcc0faa62 100644
--- a/provider-ci/internal/pkg/templates/bridged-provider/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/provider-ci/internal/pkg/templates/bridged-provider/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -211,6 +211,6 @@ jobs:
     with:
       providerVersion: ${{ inputs.version }}
       # Prelease is run often but we only have 5 concurrent macos runners, so we only test after the stable release.
-      enableMacosRunner: ${{ inputs.isPrerelease == false }}
+      enableMacRunner: ${{ inputs.isPrerelease == false }}
       skipGoSdk: ${{ inputs.skipGoSdk }}
       pythonVersion: ${{ needs.publish_sdk.outputs.python_version }}
diff --git a/provider-ci/internal/pkg/templates/provider/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml b/provider-ci/internal/pkg/templates/provider/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
index 132f2c336..6619727a1 100644
--- a/provider-ci/internal/pkg/templates/provider/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
+++ b/provider-ci/internal/pkg/templates/provider/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ on:
         description: "The version of the provider to verify"
         required: true
         type: string
-      enableMacosRunner:
+      enableMacRunner:
         description: "Enable the macos-latest runner in addition to ubuntu-latest and windows-latest. Defaults to 'false'."
         required: false
         type: boolean
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ jobs:
         # Expression expands to ["ubuntu-latest","windows-latest"] or ["ubuntu-latest","windows-latest","macos-latest"]
         # GitHub expressions don't have 'if' statements, so we use a ternary operator to conditionally include the MacOS runner suffix.
         # See the docs for a similar example to this: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/expressions#fromjson
-        runner: ${{ fromJSON(format('["ubuntu-latest","windows-latest"{0}]', github.event.inputs.enableMacRunner == 'true' && ',"macos-latest"' || '')) }}
+        runner: ${{ fromJSON(format('["ubuntu-latest","windows-latest"{0}]', inputs.enableMacRunner && ',"macos-latest"' || '')) }}
 #{{- else }}#
         # We don't have any release verification configurations, so we only run on Linux to print warnings to help users configure the release verification.
         runner: ["ubuntu-latest"]
diff --git a/provider-ci/test-providers/acme/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/provider-ci/test-providers/acme/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index b02c46109..8e131487d 100644
--- a/provider-ci/test-providers/acme/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/provider-ci/test-providers/acme/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -179,6 +179,6 @@ jobs:
     with:
       providerVersion: ${{ inputs.version }}
       # Prelease is run often but we only have 5 concurrent macos runners, so we only test after the stable release.
-      enableMacosRunner: ${{ inputs.isPrerelease == false }}
+      enableMacRunner: ${{ inputs.isPrerelease == false }}
       skipGoSdk: ${{ inputs.skipGoSdk }}
       pythonVersion: ${{ needs.publish_sdk.outputs.python_version }}
diff --git a/provider-ci/test-providers/acme/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml b/provider-ci/test-providers/acme/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
index dec42ef1c..f87b3cad5 100644
--- a/provider-ci/test-providers/acme/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
+++ b/provider-ci/test-providers/acme/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ on:
         description: "The version of the provider to verify"
         required: true
         type: string
-      enableMacosRunner:
+      enableMacRunner:
         description: "Enable the macos-latest runner in addition to ubuntu-latest and windows-latest. Defaults to 'false'."
         required: false
         type: boolean
diff --git a/provider-ci/test-providers/aws/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/provider-ci/test-providers/aws/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index 0930b50c8..6a6f2715b 100644
--- a/provider-ci/test-providers/aws/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/provider-ci/test-providers/aws/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -215,6 +215,6 @@ jobs:
     with:
       providerVersion: ${{ inputs.version }}
       # Prelease is run often but we only have 5 concurrent macos runners, so we only test after the stable release.
-      enableMacosRunner: ${{ inputs.isPrerelease == false }}
+      enableMacRunner: ${{ inputs.isPrerelease == false }}
       skipGoSdk: ${{ inputs.skipGoSdk }}
       pythonVersion: ${{ needs.publish_sdk.outputs.python_version }}
diff --git a/provider-ci/test-providers/aws/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml b/provider-ci/test-providers/aws/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
index 375d906d7..39698d6d2 100644
--- a/provider-ci/test-providers/aws/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
+++ b/provider-ci/test-providers/aws/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ on:
         description: "The version of the provider to verify"
         required: true
         type: string
-      enableMacosRunner:
+      enableMacRunner:
         description: "Enable the macos-latest runner in addition to ubuntu-latest and windows-latest. Defaults to 'false'."
         required: false
         type: boolean
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ jobs:
         # Expression expands to ["ubuntu-latest","windows-latest"] or ["ubuntu-latest","windows-latest","macos-latest"]
         # GitHub expressions don't have 'if' statements, so we use a ternary operator to conditionally include the MacOS runner suffix.
         # See the docs for a similar example to this: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/expressions#fromjson
-        runner: ${{ fromJSON(format('["ubuntu-latest","windows-latest"{0}]', github.event.inputs.enableMacRunner == 'true' && ',"macos-latest"' || '')) }}
+        runner: ${{ fromJSON(format('["ubuntu-latest","windows-latest"{0}]', inputs.enableMacRunner && ',"macos-latest"' || '')) }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.runner }}
     steps:
       - name: Checkout Repo
diff --git a/provider-ci/test-providers/cloudflare/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/provider-ci/test-providers/cloudflare/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index 35a1bf8ab..14f85953b 100644
--- a/provider-ci/test-providers/cloudflare/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/provider-ci/test-providers/cloudflare/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -212,6 +212,6 @@ jobs:
     with:
       providerVersion: ${{ inputs.version }}
       # Prelease is run often but we only have 5 concurrent macos runners, so we only test after the stable release.
-      enableMacosRunner: ${{ inputs.isPrerelease == false }}
+      enableMacRunner: ${{ inputs.isPrerelease == false }}
       skipGoSdk: ${{ inputs.skipGoSdk }}
       pythonVersion: ${{ needs.publish_sdk.outputs.python_version }}
diff --git a/provider-ci/test-providers/cloudflare/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml b/provider-ci/test-providers/cloudflare/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
index a54750964..5f04b261d 100644
--- a/provider-ci/test-providers/cloudflare/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
+++ b/provider-ci/test-providers/cloudflare/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ on:
         description: "The version of the provider to verify"
         required: true
         type: string
-      enableMacosRunner:
+      enableMacRunner:
         description: "Enable the macos-latest runner in addition to ubuntu-latest and windows-latest. Defaults to 'false'."
         required: false
         type: boolean
diff --git a/provider-ci/test-providers/docker/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/provider-ci/test-providers/docker/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index 5c785c131..bd5b1f415 100644
--- a/provider-ci/test-providers/docker/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/provider-ci/test-providers/docker/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -225,6 +225,6 @@ jobs:
     with:
       providerVersion: ${{ inputs.version }}
       # Prelease is run often but we only have 5 concurrent macos runners, so we only test after the stable release.
-      enableMacosRunner: ${{ inputs.isPrerelease == false }}
+      enableMacRunner: ${{ inputs.isPrerelease == false }}
       skipGoSdk: ${{ inputs.skipGoSdk }}
       pythonVersion: ${{ needs.publish_sdk.outputs.python_version }}
diff --git a/provider-ci/test-providers/docker/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml b/provider-ci/test-providers/docker/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
index 26c658226..97f3cd02c 100644
--- a/provider-ci/test-providers/docker/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
+++ b/provider-ci/test-providers/docker/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ on:
         description: "The version of the provider to verify"
         required: true
         type: string
-      enableMacosRunner:
+      enableMacRunner:
         description: "Enable the macos-latest runner in addition to ubuntu-latest and windows-latest. Defaults to 'false'."
         required: false
         type: boolean
diff --git a/provider-ci/test-providers/eks/.github/workflows/publish.yml b/provider-ci/test-providers/eks/.github/workflows/publish.yml
index a20924f0b..764aea5f9 100644
--- a/provider-ci/test-providers/eks/.github/workflows/publish.yml
+++ b/provider-ci/test-providers/eks/.github/workflows/publish.yml
@@ -217,6 +217,6 @@ jobs:
     with:
       providerVersion: ${{ inputs.version }}
       # Prelease is run often but we only have 5 concurrent macos runners, so we only test after the stable release.
-      enableMacosRunner: ${{ inputs.isPrerelease == false }}
+      enableMacRunner: ${{ inputs.isPrerelease == false }}
       skipGoSdk: ${{ inputs.skipGoSdk }}
       pythonVersion: ${{ needs.publish_sdk.outputs.python_version }}
diff --git a/provider-ci/test-providers/eks/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml b/provider-ci/test-providers/eks/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
index 89552c998..1457d6397 100644
--- a/provider-ci/test-providers/eks/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
+++ b/provider-ci/test-providers/eks/.github/workflows/verify-release.yml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ on:
         description: "The version of the provider to verify"
         required: true
         type: string
-      enableMacosRunner:
+      enableMacRunner:
         description: "Enable the macos-latest runner in addition to ubuntu-latest and windows-latest. Defaults to 'false'."
         required: false
         type: boolean