diff --git a/sdk/client/client.go b/sdk/client/client.go
index 52de494374a..d77e8afaf4d 100644
--- a/sdk/client/client.go
+++ b/sdk/client/client.go
@@ -471,8 +471,13 @@ func (c *Client) Execute(ctx context.Context, req *Request) (*Response, error) {
 		// Check for failed connections etc and decide if retries are appropriate
 		if r == nil {
 			if req.IsIdempotent() {
-				return extendedRetryPolicy(r, err)
+				if !isResourceManagerHost(req) {
+					return extendedRetryPolicy(r, err)
+				}
+
+				return retryablehttp.DefaultRetryPolicy(ctx, r, err)
 			}
+
 			return false, fmt.Errorf("HTTP response was nil; connection may have been reset")
 		}
 
@@ -754,6 +759,7 @@ func containsStatusCode(expected []int, actual int) bool {
 
 // extendedRetryPolicy extends the defaultRetryPolicy implementation in go-retryablehhtp with
 // additional error conditions that should not be retried indefinitely
+// TODO - This should be removed as part of 5.0 release of AzureRM, and the base layer returned to the `retryablehttp.DefaultRetryPolicy` for all requests.
 func extendedRetryPolicy(resp *http.Response, err error) (bool, error) {
 	// A regular expression to match the error returned by net/http when the
 	// configured number of redirects is exhausted. This error isn't typed
@@ -840,3 +846,22 @@ func extendedRetryPolicy(resp *http.Response, err error) (bool, error) {
 
 	return false, nil
 }
+
+// exclude Resource Manager calls from the network failure retry avoidance to help users on unreliable networks
+// This code path should be removed when the Data Plane separation work is completed and 5.0 ships.
+func isResourceManagerHost(req *Request) bool {
+	knownResourceManagerHosts := []string{
+		"management.azure.com",
+		"management.chinacloudapi.cn",
+		"management.usgovcloudapi.net",
+	}
+	if url := req.Request.URL; url != nil {
+		for _, host := range knownResourceManagerHosts {
+			if strings.Contains(url.Host, host) {
+				return true
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return false
+}
diff --git a/sdk/go.mod b/sdk/go.mod
index a374f001db7..2778249db40 100644
--- a/sdk/go.mod
+++ b/sdk/go.mod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module github.com/hashicorp/go-azure-sdk/sdk
 
-go 1.21
+go 1.22
 
 require (
 	github.com/Azure/go-autorest/autorest v0.11.29