'Unable to connect Net/http: TLS handshake timeout' — Why can't Kubectl connect to Azure Kubernetes server? (AKS)

Question

My question (to MS and anyone else) is: Why is this issue occurring and what work around can be implemented by the users / customers themselves as opposed to

Answer 1

We just had this issue for one of our clusters. Sent a support ticket and got called back 5 minutes later by an engineer asking if it was OK for them to restart the API Server. 2 minutes later it was working again.

Reason was something about timeouts in their messaging queue.