Karpenter v1.1.9

Changes

Pin ko to v0.18.1 to fix release image publish (release-v1.1.x) (#9367) #9367 (Derek Frank)other
Release-v1.1.x: cherry-pick AWS SDK client timeout fixes (#9318, #9320) (#9335) (Derek Frank)other

2 lines2 othertyped from the source notes

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