diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6c0a496f9..c30f972a4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ HELM_VERSION ?= v3.11.3
 CLUSTERCTL_VERSION ?= 1.4.2
 # renovate: datasource=github-releases depName=cilium/cilium-cli
 CILIUM_CLI_VERSION ?= v0.14.1
-KUBECTL_URL ?= https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(KUBECTL_VERSION)/bin/$(OPERATING_SYSTEM)/amd64/kubectl
+KUBECTL_URL ?= https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(KUBECTL_VERSION)/bin/$(OPERATING_SYSTEM)/amd64/kubectl
 KUBESTR_URL ?= https://github.com/kastenhq/kubestr/releases/download/$(KUBESTR_VERSION)/kubestr_$(subst v,,$(KUBESTR_VERSION))_Linux_amd64.tar.gz
 HELM_URL ?= https://get.helm.sh/helm-$(HELM_VERSION)-linux-amd64.tar.gz
 CLUSTERCTL_URL ?= https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api/releases/download/v$(CLUSTERCTL_VERSION)/clusterctl-$(OPERATING_SYSTEM)-amd64