diff --git a/packages/backend-common/src/config.ts b/packages/backend-common/src/config.ts
index 3d80ed61..291cadc6 100644
--- a/packages/backend-common/src/config.ts
+++ b/packages/backend-common/src/config.ts
@@ -5,18 +5,6 @@ import { logger } from '@guardian/transcription-service-backend-common';
 import { DestinationService } from '@guardian/transcription-service-common';
 import { SecretsManager } from '@aws-sdk/client-secrets-manager';
 
-type WorkerType = 'cpu' | 'gpu';
-
-const parseWorkerType = (workerType?: string): WorkerType | undefined => {
-	if (workerType === 'gpu') {
-		return 'gpu';
-	}
-	if (workerType === 'cpu') {
-		return 'cpu';
-	}
-	return undefined;
-};
-
 export interface TranscriptionConfig {
 	auth: {
 		clientId: string;
@@ -30,6 +18,7 @@ export interface TranscriptionConfig {
 		deadLetterQueueUrl?: string;
 		mediaDownloadQueueUrl: string;
 		stage: string;
+		app: string;
 		emailNotificationFromAddress: string;
 		sourceMediaBucket: string;
 		transcriptionOutputBucket: string;
@@ -39,7 +28,6 @@ export interface TranscriptionConfig {
 		mediaDownloadProxyIpAddress: string;
 		mediaDownloadProxyPort: number;
 		mediaExportFunctionName: string;
-		workerType?: WorkerType;
 	};
 	aws: {
 		region: string;
@@ -87,9 +75,7 @@ export const getConfig = async (): Promise<TranscriptionConfig> => {
 		region,
 		credentials: credentialProvider(stage !== 'DEV'),
 	});
-
-	const workerTypeEnvVar = process.env['WORKER_TYPE'];
-	const workerType = parseWorkerType(workerTypeEnvVar);
+	const app = await getEnvVarOrMetadata('APP', 'tags/instance/App');
 
 	const paramPath = `/${stage}/investigations/transcription-service/`;
 
@@ -195,6 +181,7 @@ export const getConfig = async (): Promise<TranscriptionConfig> => {
 			deadLetterQueueUrl,
 			mediaDownloadQueueUrl,
 			stage,
+			app,
 			sourceMediaBucket,
 			emailNotificationFromAddress,
 			destinationQueueUrls: {
@@ -207,7 +194,6 @@ export const getConfig = async (): Promise<TranscriptionConfig> => {
 			mediaDownloadProxyIpAddress,
 			mediaDownloadProxyPort: 1337,
 			mediaExportFunctionName,
-			workerType,
 		},
 		aws: {
 			region,
diff --git a/packages/cdk/lib/transcription-service.ts b/packages/cdk/lib/transcription-service.ts
index 7e79c5bf..3486df48 100644
--- a/packages/cdk/lib/transcription-service.ts
+++ b/packages/cdk/lib/transcription-service.ts
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ export class TranscriptionService extends GuStack {
 
 		Tags.of(transcriptionGpuWorkerASG).add(
 			'App',
-			`transcription-service-worker`,
+			`transcription-service-gpu-worker`,
 			{
 				applyToLaunchedInstances: true,
 			},
diff --git a/packages/worker/src/index.ts b/packages/worker/src/index.ts
index 03f3306b..f2ff0ea2 100644
--- a/packages/worker/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/worker/src/index.ts
@@ -68,6 +68,13 @@ const main = async () => {
 	);
 
 	const autoScalingClient = getASGClient(config.aws.region);
+	const isGpu = config.app.app.startsWith('transcription-service-gpu-worker');
+	const asgName = isGpu
+		? `transcription-service-gpu-workers-${config.app.stage}`
+		: `transcription-service-workers-${config.app.stage}`;
+	const taskQueueUrl = isGpu
+		? config.app.gpuTaskQueueUrl
+		: config.app.taskQueueUrl;
 
 	if (config.app.stage !== 'DEV') {
 		// start job to regularly check the instance interruption (Note: deliberately not using await here so the job
@@ -88,10 +95,9 @@ const main = async () => {
 			await pollTranscriptionQueue(
 				pollCount,
 				sqsClient,
-				config.app.workerType === 'gpu'
-					? config.app.gpuTaskQueueUrl
-					: config.app.taskQueueUrl,
+				taskQueueUrl,
 				autoScalingClient,
+				asgName,
 				metrics,
 				config,
 				instanceId,
@@ -130,6 +136,7 @@ const pollTranscriptionQueue = async (
 	sqsClient: SQSClient,
 	taskQueueUrl: string,
 	autoScalingClient: AutoScalingClient,
+	asgName: string,
 	metrics: MetricsService,
 	config: TranscriptionConfig,
 	instanceId: string,
@@ -137,10 +144,6 @@ const pollTranscriptionQueue = async (
 	const stage = config.app.stage;
 	const numberOfThreads = config.app.stage === 'PROD' ? 16 : 2;
 	const isDev = config.app.stage === 'DEV';
-	const asgName =
-		config.app.workerType === 'gpu'
-			? `transcription-service-gpu-workers-${config.app.stage}`
-			: `transcription-service-workers-${config.app.stage}`;
 
 	logger.info(
 		`worker polling for transcription task. Poll count = ${pollCount}`,
diff --git a/scripts/setup.sh b/scripts/setup.sh
index a4445159..da32bf73 100755
--- a/scripts/setup.sh
+++ b/scripts/setup.sh
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ TASK_QUEUE_URL=$(aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:4566 sqs create-queue --que
   "RedrivePolicy": "{\"deadLetterTargetArn\":\"arn:aws:sqs:us-east-1:000000000000:transcription-service-task-dead-letter-queue-DEV.fifo\",\"maxReceiveCount\":\"3\"}"
   }' | jq .QueueUrl)
 # We don't install the localstack dns so need to replace the endpoint with localhost
-TASK_QUEUE_URL_LOCALHOST=${QUEUE_URL/sqs.eu-west-1.localhost.localstack.cloud/localhost}
+TASK_QUEUE_URL_LOCALHOST=${TASK_QUEUE_URL/sqs.eu-west-1.localhost.localstack.cloud/localhost}
 
 echo "Created task queue in localstack, url: ${TASK_QUEUE_URL_LOCALHOST}"
 
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ GPU_TASK_QUEUE_URL=$(aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:4566 sqs create-queue -
   "RedrivePolicy": "{\"deadLetterTargetArn\":\"arn:aws:sqs:us-east-1:000000000000:transcription-service-task-dead-letter-queue-DEV.fifo\",\"maxReceiveCount\":\"3\"}"
   }' | jq .QueueUrl)
 # We don't install the localstack dns so need to replace the endpoint with localhost
-GPU_TASK_QUEUE_URL_LOCALHOST=${QUEUE_URL/sqs.eu-west-1.localhost.localstack.cloud/localhost}
+GPU_TASK_QUEUE_URL_LOCALHOST=${GPU_TASK_QUEUE_URL/sqs.eu-west-1.localhost.localstack.cloud/localhost}
 
 echo "Created task queue in localstack, url: ${GPU_TASK_QUEUE_URL_LOCALHOST}"