### SIG-Azure

Sig Azure was focused on two primary new alpha features:
- Adding Azure Availability Zones support to cloud provider.
- Supporting Cross RG resources (disks, Azure File and node [Experimental]

Besides the above new features, support for Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) and Cluster-Autoscaler is now stable and considered GA:

- Azure Cloud Provider now supports using Azure network resources (Virtual Network, Load Balancer, Public IP, Route Table, Network Security Group, etc.) in different AAD Tenant and Subscription than those for the Kubernetes cluster. To use the feature, please reference https://kubernetes-sigs.github.io/cloud-provider-azure/install/configs/#host-network-resources-in-different-aad-tenant-and-subscription. ([#883...

- Fix the `cloudprovider_azure_api_request_duration_seconds` metric buckets to correctly capture the latency metrics. Previously, the majority of the calls would fall in the "+Inf" bucket. ([#95376](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/95376), [@marwanad](https://github.com/marwanad)) [SIG Cloud Provider and Instrumentation]

### Other notable changes

* fix device name change issue for azure disk: add remount logic ([#57953](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57953), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* GCE: Allows existing internal load balancers to continue using an outdated subnetwork  ([#57861](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57861), [@nicksardo](https://github.com/nicksardo))

- github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go: [v55.0.0+incompatible → v68.0.0+incompatible](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go/compare/v55.0.0...v68.0.0)
- github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal: [v0.9.20 → v0.9.23](https://github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest/adal/compare/v0.9.20...v0.9.23)

### Azure

* Set node external IP for azure node when disabling UseInstanceMetadata. ([#60959](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60959), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

* Changed default azure file/dir mode to 0755. ([#56551](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/56551), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

### **Azure**

*   Fixed several issues with properly provisioning Azure disk storage ([#55927](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55927),[ @andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Fix: skip case sensitivity when checking Azure NSG rules
  fix: ensure InstanceShutdownByProviderID return false for creating Azure VMs ([#104447](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/104447), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Fixes issue https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cloud-provider-azure/issues/4230 and removes the additional filtering on `NotReady` nodes by the azure cloud provider code ([#119128](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/119128), [@alexanderConstantinescu](https://github.com/alexanderConstantinescu)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

* fix get azure accounts timeout issue when there is no out-bound IP ([#74191](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74191), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
* fix issue: fail to detach azure disk when there is server side error ([#74398](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74398), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))