Cherry Pick changes from Azure-m12 to m14

Type of change

• Bug Fix
• Feature

Does this introduce a change in the core logic?

• [Yes]

Does this introduce a change in the cloud provider implementation, if so which cloud?

• AWS
• Azure
• GCP
• IBM

Updates description?

Cherry pick changes from azure/m12-master to azure/m14-master branch for the MEDS M14 release.