diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/es_snapshots/build.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/es_snapshots/build.sh
index 24f4dae0b95bd..0edf3373e1ba5 100755
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/es_snapshots/build.sh
+++ b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/es_snapshots/build.sh
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ echo "--- Build Elasticsearch"
   :distribution:archives:linux-aarch64-tar:assemble \
   :distribution:archives:linux-tar:assemble \
   :distribution:archives:windows-zip:assemble \
+  -x :distribution:tools:server-launcher:nativeImageLinuxX64 \
+  -x :distribution:tools:server-launcher:nativeImageLinuxAarch64 \
   --parallel
 
 echo "--- Create distribution archives"
@@ -89,7 +91,9 @@ docker images "docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch" --format "{{.Tag}}
 docker images "docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch" --format "{{.Tag}}" | xargs -n1 bash -c 'docker save docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch:${0} | gzip > ../es-build/elasticsearch-${0}-docker-image.tar.gz'
 
 echo "--- Create kibana-ci docker cloud image archives"
-./gradlew :distribution:docker:cloud-ess-docker-export:assemble && {
+./gradlew :distribution:docker:cloud-ess-docker-export:assemble \
+  -x :distribution:tools:server-launcher:nativeImageLinuxX64 \
+  -x :distribution:tools:server-launcher:nativeImageLinuxAarch64 && {
   ES_CLOUD_ID=$(docker images "docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-cloud-ess" --format "{{.ID}}")
   ES_CLOUD_VERSION=$(docker images "docker.elastic.co/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-cloud-ess" --format "{{.Tag}}")
   KIBANA_ES_CLOUD_VERSION="$ES_CLOUD_VERSION-$ELASTICSEARCH_GIT_COMMIT"