cherry pick of #740 update otel-go dependency to v0.46.0 & #741 Update the go version to 1.21.4

[ljosyula]

What type of PR is this?

/kind cleanup

What this PR does / why we need it:
cherry pick of #741 and #740 on release-1.23

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Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?:

- Updated GO version to  1.21.4 to fix CVE-2023-45283 
- Updated otel go dependency to fix CVE-2023-47108

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[cartermckinnon]

/ok-to-test

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Test name	Commit	Details	Required	Rerun command
pull-cloud-provider-aws-test	bbceed1	link	true	/test pull-cloud-provider-aws-test
pull-cloud-provider-aws-check	bbceed1	link	true	/test pull-cloud-provider-aws-check
pull-cloud-provider-aws-e2e	bbceed1	link	true	/test pull-cloud-provider-aws-e2e

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[cartermckinnon]

@ljosyula you need to run go mod tidy to remove the unnecessary entries in go.mod/go.sum