- Reduced frequency of DescribeVolumes calls of AWS API when attaching/detaching a volume.

* We change the default attach_detach_controller sync period to 1 minute to reduce the query frequency through cloud provider to check whether volumes are attached or not. ([#41363](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41363), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

## Changes to Major Components
### API Server

of this functionality is to improve efficiency: manually freeing memory
before a garbage collection delays that cycle. Less frequent cycles means
the CPU cost of the garbage collector is incurred less frequently.

This functionality in this package is mostly captured in the Arena type.
Arenas allocate large chunks of memory for Go values, so they're likely to

- Scrape frequency of metrics-server has been increased to 30s.([#68127](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/68127), [@serathius](https://github.com/serathius))

* We change the default attach_detach_controller sync period to 1 minute to reduce the query frequency through cloud provider to check whether volumes are attached or not.  ([#41363](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41363), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

## Changelog since v1.5.2

### Other notable changes

* We change the default attach_detach_controller sync period to 1 minute to reduce the query frequency through cloud provider to check whether volumes are attached or not.  ([#41363](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/41363), [@jingxu97](https://github.com/jingxu97))

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- Reduced excessive logging in the Volume Binding scheduler plugin by lowering the verbosity of high-frequency messages from `V(4)` to `V(5)`. ([#132840](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/132840), [@ppmechlinski](https://github.com/ppmechlinski)) [SIG Autoscaling, Scheduling and Storage]

* Configurable etcd compaction frequency in GCE ([#59106](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/59106), [@wojtek-t](https://github.com/wojtek-t))

- Reduced log verbosity for high-frequency, low-value log entries in Job, IPAM, and ReplicaSet controllers by adjusting them to V(2), V(4) and V(4) respectively. This change minimizes log noise while maintaining access to these logs when needed. ([#130591](https://github.com/kubernetes/k...