diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-chromadb.yml b/.github/workflows/release-chromadb.yml
index 34783f2036ad..19938f04b313 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-chromadb.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-chromadb.yml
@@ -104,29 +104,7 @@ jobs:
           push: true
           tags: "${{ env.GHCR_IMAGE_NAME }}:${{ needs.get-version.outputs.version }},${{ env.DOCKERHUB_IMAGE_NAME }}:${{ needs.get-version.outputs.version }},${{ env.GHCR_IMAGE_NAME }}:latest,${{ env.DOCKERHUB_IMAGE_NAME }}:latest"
 
-  release-hosted:
-    name: Release to Chroma Cloud
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    needs:
-      - release-docker
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
-      - name: Trigger Hosted Chroma FE Release
-        uses: actions/github-script@v6
-        with:
-          github-token: ${{ secrets.HOSTED_CHROMA_WORKFLOW_DISPATCH_TOKEN }}
-          script: |
-            const result = await github.rest.actions.createWorkflowDispatch({
-              owner: 'chroma-core',
-              repo: 'hosted-chroma',
-              workflow_id: 'deploy-data-plane.yaml',
-              ref: 'main',
-              inputs: {
-                "oss-sha": "${{ github.sha }}",
-              }
-            })
 
   release-pypi:
     name: Publish to PyPI
@@ -268,6 +246,38 @@ jobs:
           removeArtifacts: true
           prerelease: true
 
+  release-hosted:
+    name: Release to Chroma Cloud
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    needs:
+      - release-github
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Trigger Hosted Chroma FE Release
+        uses: actions/github-script@v6
+        with:
+          github-token: ${{ secrets.HOSTED_CHROMA_WORKFLOW_DISPATCH_TOKEN }}
+          script: |
+            const result = await github.rest.actions.createWorkflowDispatch({
+              owner: 'chroma-core',
+              repo: 'hosted-chroma',
+              workflow_id: 'deploy.yaml',
+              ref: 'main',
+              inputs: {
+                // We intentionally *do not* provide the current commit SHA of chroma-core/chroma here. The workflow we dispatch defaults to the commit tagged with "latest" (which we update above).
+                // If we provided the current commit here, there's a potential race condition:
+                // - Commit history is A -> B
+                // - This CI workflow runs on both commits, but the second commit finishes first
+                // - B is deployed to Chroma Cloud
+                // - This workflow finishes for A and deploys A to Chroma Cloud
+                // Chroma Cloud is now running A, but the last commit was B.
+                "environment": "staging",
+                "planes": "data"
+              }
+            })
+
   release-docs:
     name: Deploy docs to Vercel
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest