### AWS

- Added support for installing `arm64` node artifacts. ([#99242](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99242), [@liu-cong](https://github.com/liu-cong))

  - https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kustomize/pull/4985: If you previously included .git in an AWS or Azure URL, we will no longer automatically remove that suffix. You may need to add an...

* Increase allowed lag for ssh key sync loop in tunneler to allow for one failure ([#60068](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60068), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

addition, SIG Cloud Provider has begun exploratory work around having a “cloud provider” e2e test suite which can be used to test common cloud provider functionalities with resources such as nodes and load balancers.

We are also continuing our long running effort to extract all the existing cloud providers that live in k8s.io/kubernetes into their own respective repos. Along with this migration, we are slowly transitioning users to use the cloud-controller-manager for any cloud provider features...

pod autoscaler. Note that it doesn't include some features of Heapster, such as short term metrics for graphs in kube-dashboard and dedicated push sinks, which proved hard to maintain and scale. Clusters using Heapster for transferring metrics into long-term storage should consider using their metric solution's native Kubernetes support, if present, or should consider alternative solutions. ([#62328](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/62328), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))...

- Add `permit_wait_duration_seconds` metric to the scheduler. ([#84011](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/84011), [@liu-cong](https://github.com/liu-cong))

### Deprecated/changed metrics

  - labels/annotations that are consumed by any cloud specific controllers

In addition to the above, SIG Cloud Provider has been focusing on a long running effort to remove cloud provider code from kubernetes/kubernetes.

### SIG-cluster-lifecycle

* Pod log attempts are now reported in apiserver prometheus metrics with verb `CONNECT` since they can run for very long periods of time. ([#50123](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/50123), [@WIZARD-CXY](https://github.com/WIZARD-CXY))

- Fixed a bug where startupProbe stopped working after a container's first restart ([#101093](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/101093), [@wzshiming](https://github.com/wzshiming)) [SIG Node]
- Fixed port-forward memory leak for long-running and heavily used connections. ([#99839](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/99839), [@saschagrunert](https://github.com/saschagrunert)) [SIG API Machinery and Node]