Karpenter v1.2.7

Changes

Pin ko to v0.18.1 to fix release image publish (release-v1.2.x) (#9368) #9368 (Derek Frank)other
Release-v1.2.x: cherry-pick AWS SDK client timeout fixes (#9318, #9320) (#9339) (Derek Frank)other

2 lines2 othertyped from the source notes

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