### VMware

- Applied zone labels to vSphere Volumes automatically. The zone labels are visible on the PV: ([#72687](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72687), [@subramanian-neelakantan](https://github.com/subramanian-neelakantan))

### Windows

 - Newly provisioned PVs by EBS plugin will no longer use the deprecated "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone" and "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region" labels. It will use "topology.kubernetes.io/zone" and "topology.kubernetes.io/region" labels instead. ([#99130](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99130), [@ayberk](https://github.com/ayberk)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Storage and Testing]

	    * cloudprovider_gce_api_request_duration_seconds{request, region, zone}

	    * cloudprovider_gce_api_request_errors{request, region, zone}

	    * request is the specific function that is used.

	    * region is the target region (Will be "<n/a>" if not applicable)

	    * zone is the target zone (Will be "<n/a>" if not applicable)

    * regions ("failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region") in favor of their GA equivalents:
    * "topology.kubernetes.io/zone" and "topology.kubernetes.io/region".

- Azure nodes with availability zone will now have label `failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone=<region>-<zoneID>`. ([#66242](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66242), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) Courtesy of SIG Azure

        * `beta.kubernetes.io/instance-type`
        * `beta.kubernetes.io/os`
        * `beta.kubernetes.io/arch`
        * `failure-domain.kubernetes.io/zone`
        * `failure-domain.kubernetes.io/region`
        * `failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone`
        * `failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region`
        * `[*.]kubelet.kubernetes.io/*`
        * `[*.]node.kubernetes.io/*`

// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/zero.html
zero

// zip : Charleston Road Registry Inc.
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/zip.html
zip

// zone : Binky Moon, LLC
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/zone.html
zone

// zuerich : Kanton Zürich (Canton of Zurich)
// https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/zuerich.html
zuerich

// ===END ICANN DOMAINS===

### StatefulSet

* Fix zone placement heuristics so that multiple mounts in a StatefulSet pod are created in the same zone ([#40910](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/40910), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

node ready. This is required because previously, if there were errors of communication with the cloud-provider on the cloud-controller-manager, nodes may have been declared Ready without having this field or the zone labels, and the information was never reconciled. The providerID and the zone labels are required for integrations like loadbalancers to work correctly. Users still can opt-out to this new behavior by setting the feature flag OptionalProviderID in the cloud-controller-manager. ([#12333...

- For GCE cluster provider, fix bug of not being able to create internal type load balancer for clusters with more than 1000 nodes in a single zone. ([#89902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89902), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t)) [SIG Cloud Provider, Network and Scalability]