- \API calls for Azure instance metadata have been reduced to help avoid "too many requests" errors.. ([#67478](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67478), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
- Azure Go SDK has been upgraded to v19.0.0 and VirtualMachineScaleSetVM now supports availability zones. ([#66648](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/66648), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))

- cloud.google.com/go/firestore: v1.1.0 → v1.9.0
- cloud.google.com/go/pubsub: v1.3.1 → v1.30.0
- cloud.google.com/go: v0.97.0 → v0.110.0
- 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)

- Add azure disk encryption(SSE+CMK) support ([#84605](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84605), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))
- Update Azure SDK versions to v35.0.0 ([#84543](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84543), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

## Dependencies

- Update Calico to v3.8.4 ([#84163](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84163), [@david-tigera](https://github.com/david-tigera))[SIG Cluster Lifecycle]
- Update aws-sdk-go dependency to v1.28.2 ([#87253](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87253), [@SaranBalaji90](https://github.com/SaranBalaji90))[SIG API Machinery and Cloud Provider]

- sigs.k8s.io/kustomize/kustomize/v5: v5.0.1

### Changed
- github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim: [v0.8.22 → v0.8.25](https://github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim/compare/v0.8.22...v0.8.25)
- github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go: [v1.44.116 → v1.35.24](https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/compare/v1.44.116...v1.35.24)
- github.com/coredns/corefile-migration: [v1.0.17 → v1.0.20](https://github.com/coredns/corefile-migration/compare/v1.0.17...v1.0.20)

*   Additional annotations are now properly set or updated  for AWS load balancers ([#55731](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/55731),[ @georgebuckerfield](https://github.com/georgebuckerfield))
*   AWS SDK is updated to version 1.12.7 ([#53561](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/53561),[ @justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))

### **Azure**

* Bump Heapster to v1.6.0-beta.1 ([#67074](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67074), [@kawych](https://github.com/kawych))
* fix azure disk create failure due to sdk upgrade ([#67236](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67236), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- github.com/hashicorp/consul/api: [v1.1.0](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/api/tree/v1.1.0)
- github.com/hashicorp/consul/sdk: [v0.1.1](https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/sdk/tree/v0.1.1)
- github.com/hashicorp/errwrap: [v1.0.0](https://github.com/hashicorp/errwrap/tree/v1.0.0)
- github.com/hashicorp/go-cleanhttp: [v0.5.1](https://github.com/hashicorp/go-cleanhttp/tree/v0.5.1)

- Added `kubelet_node_name` metrics. ([#72910](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/72910), [@danielqsj](https://github.com/danielqsj))
- Updated AWS SDK to v1.16.26 for ECR PrivateLink support ([#73435](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/73435), [@micahhausler](https://github.com/micahhausler))

- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace: v1.10.0 → v1.19.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric: v0.31.0 → v1.19.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk: v1.10.0 → v1.19.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace: v1.10.0 → v1.19.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/otel: v1.10.0 → v1.19.0
- go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp: v0.19.0 → v1.0.0
- golang.org/x/crypto: v0.11.0 → v0.14.0