diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/aws/aws.go b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/aws/aws.go
index 2a107db71ed..3d3d2aecd9b 100644
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/aws/aws.go
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/aws/aws.go
@@ -1016,10 +1016,6 @@ func updateConfigZone(cfg *CloudConfig, metadata EC2Metadata) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-func getInstanceType(metadata EC2Metadata) (string, error) {
-	return metadata.GetMetadata("instance-type")
-}
-
 func getAvailabilityZone(metadata EC2Metadata) (string, error) {
 	return metadata.GetMetadata("placement/availability-zone")
 }
@@ -1970,23 +1966,6 @@ func (c *Cloud) buildSelfAWSInstance() (*awsInstance, error) {
 	return newAWSInstance(c.ec2, instance), nil
 }
 
-// Gets the awsInstance with for the node with the specified nodeName, or the 'self' instance if nodeName == ""
-func (c *Cloud) getAwsInstance(nodeName types.NodeName) (*awsInstance, error) {
-	var awsInstance *awsInstance
-	if nodeName == "" {
-		awsInstance = c.selfAWSInstance
-	} else {
-		instance, err := c.getInstanceByNodeName(nodeName)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-
-		awsInstance = newAWSInstance(c.ec2, instance)
-	}
-
-	return awsInstance, nil
-}
-
 // wrapAttachError wraps the error returned by an AttachVolume request with
 // additional information, if needed and possible.
 func wrapAttachError(err error, disk *awsDisk, instance string) error {
diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce_util.go b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce_util.go
index ae61550ca19..ffc74bc2d24 100644
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce_util.go
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/gce/gce_util.go
@@ -176,11 +176,6 @@ func mapNodeNameToInstanceName(nodeName types.NodeName) string {
 	return string(nodeName)
 }
 
-// mapInstanceToNodeName maps a GCE Instance to a k8s NodeName
-func mapInstanceToNodeName(instance *compute.Instance) types.NodeName {
-	return types.NodeName(instance.Name)
-}
-
 // GetGCERegion returns region of the gce zone. Zone names
 // are of the form: ${region-name}-${ix}.
 // For example, "us-central1-b" has a region of "us-central1".
diff --git a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/vsphere/vsphere_util.go b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/vsphere/vsphere_util.go
index 2b5d816cb92..8ef73978a29 100644
--- a/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/vsphere/vsphere_util.go
+++ b/pkg/cloudprovider/providers/vsphere/vsphere_util.go
@@ -80,18 +80,6 @@ func getVSphereConfig() (*VSphereConfig, error) {
 	return &cfg, nil
 }
 
-func getVSphereConn(cfg *VSphereConfig) *vclib.VSphereConnection {
-	vSphereConn := &vclib.VSphereConnection{
-		Username:          cfg.Global.User,
-		Password:          cfg.Global.Password,
-		Hostname:          cfg.Global.VCenterIP,
-		Insecure:          cfg.Global.InsecureFlag,
-		RoundTripperCount: cfg.Global.RoundTripperCount,
-		Port:              cfg.Global.VCenterPort,
-	}
-	return vSphereConn
-}
-
 // Returns the accessible datastores for the given node VM.
 func getAccessibleDatastores(ctx context.Context, nodeVmDetail *NodeDetails, nodeManager *NodeManager) ([]*vclib.DatastoreInfo, error) {
 	accessibleDatastores, err := nodeVmDetail.vm.GetAllAccessibleDatastores(ctx)