- DisableAvailabilitySetNodes is added to avoid VM list for VMSS clusters. It should only be used when vmType is "vmss" and all the nodes (including control plane nodes) are VMSS virtual machines. ([#87685](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/87685), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Fix invalid VMSS updates due to incorrect cache ([#89002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89002), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

- Azure: fix concurreny issue in lb creation ([#89604](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89604), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Azure: per VMSS VMSS VMs cache to prevent throttling on clusters having many attached VMSS ([#93107](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/93107), [@bpineau](https://github.com/bpineau)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

  - Add optional jitter on initial VMSS VM cache refresh, keep the refreshes spread over time
  - Serve from cache for the whole period of ongoing throttling
  - Fix unwanted VMSS VMs cache invalidations
  - Enforce setting the number of retries if cloud provider backoff is enabled
  - Don't update capacity if VMSS provisioning state is updating
  - Support allocatable resources overrides via VMSS tags

- Fix invalid VMSS updates due to incorrect cache ([#89002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89002), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]

  ### Azure
  - Add optional jitter on initial VMSS VM cache refresh, keep the refreshes spread over time
  - Serve from cache for the whole period of ongoing throttling
  - Fix unwanted VMSS VMs cache invalidation
  - Enforce setting the number of retries if cloud provider backoff is enabled
  - Don't update capacity if VMSS provisioning state is updating
  - Support allocatable resources overrides via VMSS tags

* Get public IP for Azure vmss nodes. ([#68498](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68498), [@feiskyer](https://github.com/feiskyer))
* adjusted http/2 buffer sizes for apiservers to prevent starvation issues between concurrent streams ([#67902](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67902), [@liggitt](https://github.com/liggitt))

* azure: update disk lock logic per vm during attach/detach to allow concurrent updates for different nodes. ([#85115](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85115), [@aramase](https://github.com/aramase))
* fix vmss dirty cache issue in disk attach/detach on vmss node ([#85158](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/85158), [@andyzhangx](https://github.com/andyzhangx))

- Fix invalid VMSS updates due to incorrect cache ([#89002](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/89002), [@ArchangelSDY](https://github.com/ArchangelSDY)) [SIG Cloud Provider]
- Fix panic in kubelet when running IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack mode with a CNI plugin ([#82508](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82508), [@aanm](https://github.com/aanm)) [SIG Network and Node]

- Azure virtual machine scale sets (VMSS) allow you to create and manage identical load balanced VMs that automatically increase or decrease based on demand or a set schedule.