diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/controlplane/manifests.go b/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/controlplane/manifests.go
index fe5433cba2085..0dc62240bee33 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/controlplane/manifests.go
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/controlplane/manifests.go
@@ -40,8 +40,9 @@ import (
 const (
 	DefaultCloudConfigPath = "/etc/kubernetes/cloud-config"
 
-	defaultV18AdmissionControl = "Initializers,NamespaceLifecycle,LimitRanger,ServiceAccount,PersistentVolumeLabel,DefaultStorageClass,DefaultTolerationSeconds,NodeRestriction,ResourceQuota"
-	defaultV19AdmissionControl = "Initializers,NamespaceLifecycle,LimitRanger,ServiceAccount,PersistentVolumeLabel,DefaultStorageClass,DefaultTolerationSeconds,NodeRestriction,Priority,ResourceQuota"
+	defaultV18AdmissionControl    = "Initializers,NamespaceLifecycle,LimitRanger,ServiceAccount,PersistentVolumeLabel,DefaultStorageClass,DefaultTolerationSeconds,NodeRestriction,ResourceQuota"
+	deprecatedV19AdmissionControl = "Initializers,NamespaceLifecycle,LimitRanger,ServiceAccount,PersistentVolumeLabel,DefaultStorageClass,DefaultTolerationSeconds,NodeRestriction,Priority,ResourceQuota"
+	defaultV19AdmissionControl    = "Initializers,NamespaceLifecycle,LimitRanger,ServiceAccount,DefaultStorageClass,DefaultTolerationSeconds,NodeRestriction,Priority,ResourceQuota"
 )
 
 // CreateInitStaticPodManifestFiles will write all static pod manifest files needed to bring up the control plane.
@@ -170,6 +171,10 @@ func getAPIServerCommand(cfg *kubeadmapi.MasterConfiguration, k8sVersion *versio
 		defaultArguments["admission-control"] = defaultV18AdmissionControl
 	}
 
+	if cfg.CloudProvider == "aws" || cfg.CloudProvider == "gce" {
+		defaultArguments["admission-control"] = deprecatedV19AdmissionControl
+	}
+
 	command = append(command, kubeadmutil.BuildArgumentListFromMap(defaultArguments, cfg.APIServerExtraArgs)...)
 	command = append(command, getAuthzParameters(cfg.AuthorizationModes)...)
 
diff --git a/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/controlplane/manifests_test.go b/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/controlplane/manifests_test.go
index e59dcddcbd14d..38421b5fa65c9 100644
--- a/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/controlplane/manifests_test.go
+++ b/cmd/kubeadm/app/phases/controlplane/manifests_test.go
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ func TestGetAPIServerCommand(t *testing.T) {
 			expected: []string{
 				"kube-apiserver",
 				"--insecure-port=0",
-				"--admission-control=Initializers,NamespaceLifecycle,LimitRanger,ServiceAccount,PersistentVolumeLabel,DefaultStorageClass,DefaultTolerationSeconds,NodeRestriction,Priority,ResourceQuota",
+				"--admission-control=Initializers,NamespaceLifecycle,LimitRanger,ServiceAccount,DefaultStorageClass,DefaultTolerationSeconds,NodeRestriction,Priority,ResourceQuota",
 				"--service-cluster-ip-range=bar",
 				"--service-account-key-file=" + testCertsDir + "/sa.pub",
 				"--client-ca-file=" + testCertsDir + "/ca.crt",
@@ -388,6 +388,78 @@ func TestGetAPIServerCommand(t *testing.T) {
 				"--etcd-keyfile=faz",
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			cfg: &kubeadmapi.MasterConfiguration{
+				API:               kubeadmapi.API{BindPort: 123, AdvertiseAddress: "1.2.3.4"},
+				Networking:        kubeadmapi.Networking{ServiceSubnet: "bar"},
+				CertificatesDir:   testCertsDir,
+				KubernetesVersion: "v1.9.0-beta.0",
+				CloudProvider:     "gce",
+			},
+			expected: []string{
+				"kube-apiserver",
+				"--insecure-port=0",
+				"--admission-control=Initializers,NamespaceLifecycle,LimitRanger,ServiceAccount,PersistentVolumeLabel,DefaultStorageClass,DefaultTolerationSeconds,NodeRestriction,Priority,ResourceQuota",
+				"--service-cluster-ip-range=bar",
+				"--service-account-key-file=" + testCertsDir + "/sa.pub",
+				"--client-ca-file=" + testCertsDir + "/ca.crt",
+				"--tls-cert-file=" + testCertsDir + "/apiserver.crt",
+				"--tls-private-key-file=" + testCertsDir + "/apiserver.key",
+				"--kubelet-client-certificate=" + testCertsDir + "/apiserver-kubelet-client.crt",
+				"--kubelet-client-key=" + testCertsDir + "/apiserver-kubelet-client.key",
+				"--enable-bootstrap-token-auth=true",
+				"--secure-port=123",
+				"--allow-privileged=true",
+				"--kubelet-preferred-address-types=InternalIP,ExternalIP,Hostname",
+				"--proxy-client-cert-file=/var/lib/certs/front-proxy-client.crt",
+				"--proxy-client-key-file=/var/lib/certs/front-proxy-client.key",
+				"--requestheader-username-headers=X-Remote-User",
+				"--requestheader-group-headers=X-Remote-Group",
+				"--requestheader-extra-headers-prefix=X-Remote-Extra-",
+				"--requestheader-client-ca-file=" + testCertsDir + "/front-proxy-ca.crt",
+				"--requestheader-allowed-names=front-proxy-client",
+				"--authorization-mode=Node,RBAC",
+				"--advertise-address=1.2.3.4",
+				"--etcd-servers=http://127.0.0.1:2379",
+				"--cloud-provider=gce",
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			cfg: &kubeadmapi.MasterConfiguration{
+				API:               kubeadmapi.API{BindPort: 123, AdvertiseAddress: "1.2.3.4"},
+				Networking:        kubeadmapi.Networking{ServiceSubnet: "bar"},
+				CertificatesDir:   testCertsDir,
+				KubernetesVersion: "v1.9.0-beta.0",
+				CloudProvider:     "aws",
+			},
+			expected: []string{
+				"kube-apiserver",
+				"--insecure-port=0",
+				"--admission-control=Initializers,NamespaceLifecycle,LimitRanger,ServiceAccount,PersistentVolumeLabel,DefaultStorageClass,DefaultTolerationSeconds,NodeRestriction,Priority,ResourceQuota",
+				"--service-cluster-ip-range=bar",
+				"--service-account-key-file=" + testCertsDir + "/sa.pub",
+				"--client-ca-file=" + testCertsDir + "/ca.crt",
+				"--tls-cert-file=" + testCertsDir + "/apiserver.crt",
+				"--tls-private-key-file=" + testCertsDir + "/apiserver.key",
+				"--kubelet-client-certificate=" + testCertsDir + "/apiserver-kubelet-client.crt",
+				"--kubelet-client-key=" + testCertsDir + "/apiserver-kubelet-client.key",
+				"--enable-bootstrap-token-auth=true",
+				"--secure-port=123",
+				"--allow-privileged=true",
+				"--kubelet-preferred-address-types=InternalIP,ExternalIP,Hostname",
+				"--proxy-client-cert-file=/var/lib/certs/front-proxy-client.crt",
+				"--proxy-client-key-file=/var/lib/certs/front-proxy-client.key",
+				"--requestheader-username-headers=X-Remote-User",
+				"--requestheader-group-headers=X-Remote-Group",
+				"--requestheader-extra-headers-prefix=X-Remote-Extra-",
+				"--requestheader-client-ca-file=" + testCertsDir + "/front-proxy-ca.crt",
+				"--requestheader-allowed-names=front-proxy-client",
+				"--authorization-mode=Node,RBAC",
+				"--advertise-address=1.2.3.4",
+				"--etcd-servers=http://127.0.0.1:2379",
+				"--cloud-provider=aws",
+			},
+		},
 	}
 
 	for _, rt := range tests {