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Announcing General Availability of Azure API Management Basic v2 and Standard v2 Tiers
Target availability: Q2 2024
We're thrilled to announce the General Availability of Azure API Management's newest pricing tiers – Basic v2 and Standard v2. The Azure API Management v2 pricing tiers represent a significant leap forward, offering a comprehensive range of capabilities tailored to projects of all sizes, from small-scale endeavors to large-scale enterprise applications. Importantly, these new v2 pricing tiers are available alongside our existing Azure API Management classic pricing tiers, ensuring continuity for users. It's worth noting that the Azure API Management classic pricing tiers remain actively supported and invested in.
GA: Azure API Management Developer Portal Unveils Enhanced Features for Increased Developer Productivity
Target availability: Q1 2024
The API Management developer portal is an automatically generated, fully customizable website with the documentation of your APIs. It's where API consumers can discover your APIs, learn how to use them, request access, and try them out. We recently improved the portal editor interface to boost your productivity and enhance the interactions with your favorite features and tools.
Public preview: ExpressRoute Metro for High Resiliency
ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection with the help of a connectivity provider. With ExpressRoute, you can establish connections to Microsoft cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365.
Public preview: Azure Backup supports long term retention for backup of Azure Database for MySQL– Flexible Server
Target availability: Q1 2024
Now you can retain backups for up to 10 years by defining your own backup and retention policy for MySQL- Flexible server.
Public Preview: Azure Backup enables vaulted backups for Azure Files for comprehensive data protection.
Target availability: Q1 2024
Azure Backup now supports transferring Azure Files backups to the vault for comprehensive protection against severe data loss scenarios like ransomware attack.
March 2024
Begin using Azure Monitor–based dashboards in Azure API Management before the built-in analytics dashboards are retired on 15 March 2027
Target retirement date: March 15, 2027
The classic built-in analytics dashboards will be retired on 15 March 2027.
Migrate your Git Repository to automated deployments with APIOps by 15 March 2025
Target retirement date: March 15, 2025
The Git repository feature in Azure API Management will be retired 15 March 2025
Long Audio API will be retired on 31 March 2027 – Migrate to the new batch synthesis API
Target availability: Q1 2027
Long Audio API will be retired on March 31, 2027
Azure CycleCloud support for Chef run_lists and cookbooks in cluster-init projects is ending on 31 March 2025
Target retirement date: April 01, 2025
End of Life Announcement for Chef Run_lists and Cookbooks in Azure CycleCloud Cluster-Init Projects on 31 March 2025
Migrate to Azure AI Document Intelligence v3.1 GA version
Target retirement date: August 31, 2026
Azure AI Document Intelligence v2.0 API will be retired on 31 August 2026
Custom .Net deserializer for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024.
Target retirement date: September 30, 2024
Custom .Net deserializer for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024.
We're retiring Memory Optimized Data Flows in Azure Data Factory - use General Purpose for better performance at a lower price.
Target retirement date: April 01, 2027
We're retiring Memory Optimized Data Flows in Azure Data Factory
Custom .net deserializer for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024
Target retirement date: October 01, 2024
Custom .net deserializer for Azure Stream Analytics will be retired on 30 September 2024. After that date, it won't be possible to use the feature. Please transition to a JSON, AVRO, or CSV built-in deserializer by that date.
Azure HDInsight 5.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025
Target retirement date: March 31, 2025
Azure HDInsight 5.0 for cluster shapes Kafka, Interactive Query, and Spark will retire on 31 March 2025. HDInsight, 5.1 is Generally available from November 1, 2023, this release contains all the latest versions of supported software. It comes with all the improvements made in open-source versions and the integrations from Microsoft.
Retirement notice: Windows Server 2022 will retire with k8s 1.34 in March 2027
Target retirement date: March 15, 2027
Windows Server 2022 will be retired on 15 March 2027
Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage C++ client libraries will be retired on 29 March 2025
Target retirement date: March 29, 2024
Legacy Azure Storage C++ client libraries will be retired on 29 March 2025. Before that date, you’ll need to transition to the latest version of the Azure Storage C++ client libraries.
Azure Maps Web SDK Map Control version 2.0.x and Azure Maps Service Module will be retired on 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Azure Maps Web SDK Map Control version 2.0.x and Azure Maps Service Module will be retired on 30 September 2026
Retirement: Support for .NET 6 ends on 12 November 2024—upgrade your Azure Functions apps to .NET 8
Target retirement date: November 12, 2024
Upgrade your Azure Functions apps to .NET 8
Retirement: Support for the in-process model for .NET apps in Azure Functions ends 10 November 2026.
Target retirement date: November 10, 2026
Migrate your .NET apps in Azure Functions to the isolated worker model
Standard_NC6s_v3, Standard_NC12s_v3 and Standard_NC24s_v3 Azure virtual machines will be retired on September 30, 2025
Standard_NC6s_v3, Standard_NC12s_v3 and Standard_NC24s_v3 Azure virtual machines will be retired on September 30, 2025
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