diff --git a/provider/pkg/azure/client_azcore.go b/provider/pkg/azure/client_azcore.go
index a4bb5b45e3d..2d0eb0842c8 100644
--- a/provider/pkg/azure/client_azcore.go
+++ b/provider/pkg/azure/client_azcore.go
@@ -91,7 +91,19 @@ func (c *azCoreClient) initRequest(ctx context.Context, method, id string, query
 	c.setHeaders(req, method == http.MethodPost || method == http.MethodPut || method == http.MethodPatch)
 
 	urlValues := MapToValues(queryParams)
-	// TODO,tkappler go-autorest WithQueryParameters in preparer.go does an additional query-unescape for each value - why?
+	// URL-unescape each value before encoding the URL (which encodes all values). Presumably, this
+	// prevents double-encoding. It's not clear to me that this is necessary but Autorest does it and
+	// we want to match behavior here as closely as possible.
+	for key, value := range urlValues {
+		for i := range value {
+			d, err := url.QueryUnescape(value[i])
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, err
+			}
+			value[i] = d
+		}
+		urlValues[key] = value
+	}
 	req.Raw().URL.RawQuery = urlValues.Encode()
 
 	return req, nil
diff --git a/provider/pkg/azure/client_azcore_test.go b/provider/pkg/azure/client_azcore_test.go
index ddd04993641..a6d4bf1e525 100644
--- a/provider/pkg/azure/client_azcore_test.go
+++ b/provider/pkg/azure/client_azcore_test.go
@@ -65,10 +65,12 @@ func TestInitRequestQueryParams(t *testing.T) {
 	client := c.(*azCoreClient)
 
 	queryParams := map[string]any{
-		"api-version": "2022-09-01",
-		"bool":        true,
-		"int":         42,
-		"slice":       []string{"a", "b"},
+		"api-version":                 "2022-09-01",
+		"string_with_unescaped_slash": "a/path",
+		"string_with_escaped_slash":   "a%2Fpath",
+		"bool":                        true,
+		"int":                         42,
+		"slice":                       []string{"a", "b"},
 	}
 	req, err := client.initRequest(context.Background(), http.MethodGet, "/subscriptions/123", queryParams)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
@@ -76,6 +78,8 @@ func TestInitRequestQueryParams(t *testing.T) {
 	query := req.Raw().URL.Query()
 	assert.Len(t, query, len(queryParams))
 	assert.Equal(t, "2022-09-01", query.Get("api-version"))
+	assert.Equal(t, "a/path", query.Get("string_with_unescaped_slash"))
+	assert.Equal(t, "a/path", query.Get("string_with_escaped_slash"))
 	assert.Equal(t, "true", query.Get("bool"))
 	assert.Equal(t, "42", query.Get("int"))
 	assert.Equal(t, "a", query.Get("slice"))