Add sovereign cloud support for Bleu, Delos, and GovSG

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Changes proposed in this request

MSAL performs instance discovery to resolve cloud aliases and ensure token cache compatibility. For known clouds, instance discovery must target the cloud-specific endpoint rather than the global cloud (login.microsoftonline.com).

Added three new sovereign clouds to KnownMetadataProvider:

• Bleu (France): login.sovcloud-identity.fr
• Delos (Germany): login.sovcloud-identity.de
• GovSG (Singapore): login.sovcloud-identity.sg

Each cloud entry follows the existing pattern:

InstanceDiscoveryMetadataEntry bleuCloudEntry = new InstanceDiscoveryMetadataEntry()
{
    Aliases = new[] { "login.sovcloud-identity.fr" },
    PreferredNetwork = "login.sovcloud-identity.fr",
    PreferredCache = "login.sovcloud-identity.fr"
};

Instance discovery for these clouds now routes to the cloud-specific endpoint, not the global cloud.

These new sovereign clouds rely on client-side authority validation only (no calls to eSTS). Updated the KnownInstanceMetadataIsUpToDateAsync integration test to exclude these clouds from the discovery endpoint comparison, as they are not part of the public discovery responses.

Testing

• Added KnownMetadataProvider_NewSovereignClouds data-driven test using [DataTestMethod] with [DataRow] attributes to validate metadata retrieval for all three clouds
• Extended KnownMetadataProvider_IsKnown to verify case-insensitive recognition
• Extended KnownMetadataProvider_publicEnvironment to ensure new clouds are not treated as public cloud
• Updated KnownInstanceMetadataIsUpToDateAsync integration test to filter out client-side sovereign clouds from discovery endpoint comparison

All tests pass. The data-driven test approach ensures each sovereign cloud is tested individually with consistent assertions.

Performance impact

None. Static initialization only, no runtime changes.

Documentation

• All relevant documentation is updated.

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>[Feature Request] New sovereign cloud support</issue_title>
<issue_description>### MSAL client type

Confidential, Public

Problem statement

MSAL must keep all HTTP requests in the same cloud for the publicly known clouds. However, today MSAL will perform instance discovery, which in some cases goes to the global cloud, i.e. login.microsoftonline.com

The proposed solution is for MSAL to keep a list of known clouds. If the authority host matches a known host, then instance discovery should occur on that host.

Below is list of known cloud hosts. This is partially available here

"Public"
"login.microsoftonline.com" <-- use this for instance discovery
"login.windows.net",
"login.microsoft.com",
"sts.windows.net"

"PPE"
"login.windows-ppe.net",

"Fairfax",
"login.microsoftonline.us",

"Mooncake",
"login.partner.microsoftonline.cn" <-- use this for instance discovery
"login.chinacloudapi.cn"

"Bleu",
"login.sovcloud-identity.fr",

"Delos",
"login.sovcloud-identity.de",

"GovSG",
"login.sovcloud-identity.sg",

Notes:

• MSAL.NET already does for most clouds, it just needs to be updated for Bleu, Delos and GovSG - see https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-
  dotnet/blob/main/src/client/Microsoft.Identity.Client/Instance/Discovery/KnownMetadataProvider.cs#L47

• Instance discovery should continue to be performed for discovery of aliases

Acceptance tests

1. Authority: "login.microsoftonline.com/tid". Instance discovery expected on: login.microsoftonline.com
2. Authority: "login.microsoft.com/tid". Instance discovery expected on: login.microsoftonline.com
3. Authority: "login.partner.microsoftonline.cn/tid". Instance discovery expected on: login.partner.microsoftonline.cn
4. Authority: any of the list above. Instance discovery not expected on login.microsoftonline.com
5. Authority not on the list above. Instance discovery expected on login.microsoftonline.com

</issue_description>

<agent_instructions>Look for other places where we handle sovereign clouds like login.partner.microsoftonline.cn and use that as an example. Only instance discovery logic is affected</agent_instructions>

Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

@iulico-1 Change and tests look good.

Adding few more details here. We call global in two flows: Instance discovery and authority validation.

For new sovereign clouds we'll rely on client-side authority validation (no calls to eSTS). Instance discovery logic will be controlled by the cloud specific configuration. </comment_new>

• Fixes [Feature Request] Improve sovereign cloud support for the new clouds (fr, de, sg) #5630

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Failed KnownInstanceMetadataIsUpToDateAsync [68 ms]
Error Message:
Assert.IsTrue failed.
Stack Trace:
at Microsoft.Identity.Test.Common.Core.Helpers.CoreAssert.AssertDictionariesAreEqual[TKey,TValue](IDictionary2 dict1, IDictionary2 dict2, IEqualityComparer`1 valueComparer) in //tests/Microsoft.Identity.Test.Common/Core/Helpers/CoreAssert.cs:line 71
at Microsoft.Identity.Test.Integration.HeadlessTests.InstanceDiscoveryIntegrationTests.KnownInstanceMetadataIsUpToDateAsync() in //tests/Microsoft.Identity.Test.Integration.netcore/HeadlessTests/InstanceDiscoveryIntegrationTests.cs:line 161

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Failed KnownInstanceMetadataIsUpToDateAsync [68 ms]
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Fixed the test by filtering out the new sovereign clouds (Bleu, Delos, GovSG) from the discovery comparison. These clouds are client-side only and not part of the public discovery endpoint responses, so they should be excluded from the assertion. Commit: 1abc2c5

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