diff --git a/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/azure/azure_client.go b/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/azure/azure_client.go
index 98b48aa2c635..cdbb23ad14a1 100644
--- a/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/azure/azure_client.go
+++ b/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/azure/azure_client.go
@@ -205,9 +205,9 @@ func getAgentpoolClientRetryOptions(cfg *Config) azurecore_policy.RetryOptions {
 func newAgentpoolClient(cfg *Config) (AgentPoolsClient, error) {
 	retryOptions := getAgentpoolClientRetryOptions(cfg)
 
-	if cfg.ARMBaseURL != "" {
-		klog.V(10).Infof("Using ARMBaseURL to create agent pool client")
-		return newAgentpoolClientWithConfig(cfg.SubscriptionID, nil, cfg.ARMBaseURL, "UNKNOWN", retryOptions)
+	if cfg.ARMBaseURLForAPClient != "" {
+		klog.V(10).Infof("Using ARMBaseURLForAPClient to create agent pool client")
+		return newAgentpoolClientWithConfig(cfg.SubscriptionID, nil, cfg.ARMBaseURLForAPClient, "UNKNOWN", retryOptions)
 	}
 
 	return newAgentpoolClientWithPublicEndpoint(cfg, retryOptions)
diff --git a/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/azure/azure_config.go b/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/azure/azure_config.go
index 67e1a42ef7e3..b2f880d29af3 100644
--- a/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/azure/azure_config.go
+++ b/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/azure/azure_config.go
@@ -94,9 +94,9 @@ type Config struct {
 	ClusterResourceGroup string `json:"clusterResourceGroup" yaml:"clusterResourceGroup"`
 	VMType               string `json:"vmType" yaml:"vmType"`
 
-	// ARMBaseURL is the URL to use for operations for the VMs pool.
+	// ARMBaseURLForAPClient is the URL to use for operations for the VMs pool.
 	// It can override the default public ARM endpoint for VMs pool scale operations.
-	ARMBaseURL string `json:"armBaseURL" yaml:"armBaseURL"`
+	ARMBaseURLForAPClient string `json:"armBaseURLForAPClient" yaml:"armBaseURLForAPClient"`
 
 	// AuthMethod determines how to authorize requests for the Azure
 	// cloud. Valid options are "principal" (= the traditional
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ func BuildAzureConfig(configReader io.Reader) (*Config, error) {
 	// always read the following from environment variables since azure.json doesn't have these fields
 	cfg.ClusterName = os.Getenv("CLUSTER_NAME")
 	cfg.ClusterResourceGroup = os.Getenv("ARM_CLUSTER_RESOURCE_GROUP")
-	cfg.ARMBaseURL = os.Getenv("ARM_BASE_URL")
+	cfg.ARMBaseURLForAPClient = os.Getenv("ARM_BASE_URL_FOR_AP_CLIENT")
 
 	cfg.TrimSpace()
 
diff --git a/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/azure/azure_manager_test.go b/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/azure/azure_manager_test.go
index 5b21bea9ad34..4df4bea86357 100644
--- a/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/azure/azure_manager_test.go
+++ b/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/azure/azure_manager_test.go
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ func TestCreateAzureManagerWithNilConfig(t *testing.T) {
 		ResourceGroup:                "resourceGroup",
 		ClusterName:                  "mycluster",
 		ClusterResourceGroup:         "myrg",
-		ARMBaseURL:                   "nodeprovisioner-svc.nodeprovisioner.svc.cluster.local",
+		ARMBaseURLForAPClient:        "nodeprovisioner-svc.nodeprovisioner.svc.cluster.local",
 		VMType:                       "vmss",
 		AADClientID:                  "aadClientId",
 		AADClientSecret:              "aadClientSecret",
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ func TestCreateAzureManagerWithNilConfig(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Setenv("CLOUD_PROVIDER_RATE_LIMIT", "true")
 	t.Setenv("CLUSTER_NAME", "mycluster")
 	t.Setenv("ARM_CLUSTER_RESOURCE_GROUP", "myrg")
-	t.Setenv("ARM_BASE_URL", "nodeprovisioner-svc.nodeprovisioner.svc.cluster.local")
+	t.Setenv("ARM_BASE_URL_FOR_AP_CLIENT", "nodeprovisioner-svc.nodeprovisioner.svc.cluster.local")
 
 	t.Run("environment variables correctly set", func(t *testing.T) {
 		manager, err := createAzureManagerInternal(nil, cloudprovider.NodeGroupDiscoveryOptions{}, mockAzClient)