*   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**

- 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))

- 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))

- 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)

- 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)

- Kubernetes now supports configure TLS termination for AWS NLB([#74910](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/74910), [@M00nF1sh](https://github.com/M00nF1sh))
- Kubernetes will now consume the AWS region list from the AWS SDK instead of a hard-coded list in the cloud provider. ([#75990](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/75990), [@mcrute](https://github.com/mcrute))

### Other notable changes

* Update dashboard version to v1.6.0 ([#43210](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43210), [@floreks](https://github.com/floreks))
* Update photon controller go SDK in vendor code. ([#43108](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/43108), [@luomiao](https://github.com/luomiao))

- 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

- [`KT-65939`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-65939) IrFakeOverrideBuilder - nullability annotation is lost in intersection without annotation
- [`KT-59473`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-59473) K2: build firebase-kotlin-sdk
- [`KT-66356`](https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-66356) K2: type mismatch error when generic type with inaccessible generic type as type argument is produced and consumed by declarations from dependencies

## 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]