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the cloud provider should be set correctly when you first provision the cluster. nodes get immutable fields set on them by the cloud provider when they join the cluster, which makes it difficult to change the cloud provider after the fact - you would have to delete and re-add all the nodes after switching. In practice, you are better off rebuilding a new cluster with the proper cloud provider set from the start.

thanks for prompt reply. This is a prod cluster and have lots of nodes. do you think any other way to fix it ? other than re-creating the cluster. I ma not sure I can re-create it. our goal is to use k8s autoscaler hence we try to update cloud_provider=aws. it just came to my mind when would it help if I try to install cloud-provider-aws myself or anything else ? much appreciated.