- Added regions ap-northeast-3 and eu-west-3 to the list of well known AWS regions. ([#70252](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/70252), [@nckturner](https://github.com/nckturner))

* Fixes a bug where character devices are not recognized by the kubelet ([#60440](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/60440), [@andrewsykim](https://github.com/andrewsykim))
* Fixes storage e2e test failures in GKE regional clusters. ([#61303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61303), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

	    * The new metrics are:

	    * 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)

* Created k8s.gcr.io image repo alias to pull images from the closest regional repo. Replaces gcr.io/google_containers. ([#57824](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/57824), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))

* Fixes storage e2e test failures in GKE regional clusters. ([#61303](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/61303), [@verult](https://github.com/verult))

America/Panama America/Pangnirtung America/Paramaribo America/Phoenix America/Port-au-Prince America/Port_of_Spain America/Porto_Acre America/Porto_Velho America/Puerto_Rico America/Punta_Arenas America/Rainy_River America/Rankin_Inlet America/Recife America/Regina America/Resolute America/Rio_Branco America/Rosario America/Santa_Isabel America/Santarem America/Santiago America/Santo_Domingo America/Sao_Paulo America/Scoresbysund America/Shiprock America/Sitka America/St_Barthelemy America/St_Johns America/St_Kitts...

    * OverrideSeparator string Delimiter to use to separate region of occurrence, url and signing region for each override Defaults to ","
    * ServiceOverrides string example: s3|region1, https://s3.foo.bar, some signing_region & ec2|region2, https://ec2.foo.bar, signing_region

 - 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]

* Trust region if found from AWS metadata ([#38880](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/38880), [@justinsb](https://github.com/justinsb))
* Remove duplicate calls to DescribeInstance during volume operations ([#39842](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/39842), [@gnufied](https://github.com/gnufied))

- Reminder: The labels "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/zone" and "failure-domain.beta.kubernetes.io/region" are deprecated in favor of "topology.kubernetes.io/zone" and "topology.kubernetes.io/region" respectively.  All users of the "failure-domain.beta..." labels should switch to the "topology..." equivalents. ([#96033](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/96033), [@thockin](https://github.com/thockin))...