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We will be posting weekly updates here, every Thursday.

 

Critical updates and retirements may also be communicated via emails and service health alerts.

 

For additional product retirement information, please reference the Lifecycle Learn search page.

October 2024

Oct 10

RETIREMENT

All versions of the EA Azure Price Sheet - Download by Billing Account API prior to version 2023-09-01 will be retired on June 1, 2026. Please migrate to version 2023-11-01 to take advantage of the newer and enhanced price sheet.

Oct 10

NOW AVAILABLE

New cost-effective solution for apps that need more memory resources without extra cores on Azure App Service Environment v3.

Oct 10

NOW AVAILABLE

The default maximum egress for general-purpose v2 and Blob storage accounts has been increased to 200 Gbps in regions where the limit was previously 120 Gbps.

Oct 10

RETIREMENT

Support for custom text analytics for health (preview) in Azure AI Language is ending on January 10th, 2025

Oct 10

RETIREMENT

Support for custom sentiment analysis (preview) in Azure AI Language is ending on January 10th, 2025

Oct 10

NOW AVAILABLE

Configure a new set of server parameters for performance management—now modifiable in Azure Database for PostgreSQL — Flexible Server.

Oct 10

IN PREVIEW

Get up to 32 TiB and up to 20,000 IOPS per physical shard for larger workloads.

Oct 10

IN PREVIEW

Cross-region replication on multishard clusters enables disaster recovery and read scalability for larger workloads.

Oct 10

IN PREVIEW

Support larger workloads and get improved performance with mMultishard vCore-based Azure Cosmos DB for MongoDB clusters.

Oct 10

IN PREVIEW

Get support for the postgresql_anonymizer extension, also known as the anon extension—now available in version 1.3.2. This extension helps mask or anonymize sensitive data directly within your database, providing an extra layer of data protection.

Oct 10

IN PREVIEW

Use one of the fastest vector indexing algorithms for enhanced retrieval performance and accuracy in Azure Database for PostgreSQL.

Oct 10

NOW AVAILABLE

Use an updated version of Redis on your cache instances.

Oct 10

NOW AVAILABLE

Authenticate requests to the dedicated gateway using role-based access control (RBAC) and have more control over what data is cached with a new request option to bypass the integrated cache.

Oct 10

NOW AVAILABLE

Easily reschedule maintenance—and automate using Azure CLI—within a maximum 30-day window.

Oct 10

NOW AVAILABLE

Easily customize Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer views using new custom column selector and filter history.

Oct 10

NOW AVAILABLE

General availability enhancements and updates released for Azure SQL in early-October 2024.

Oct 10

NOW AVAILABLE

ExpressRoute's multi-site resiliency ensures businesses achieve maximum reliability and redundancy by providing multiple layers of connectivity protection across diverse geographic locations. This robust setup minimizes downtime and enhances operational continuity, making it ideal for enterprises requiring consistent and secure network performance.

Oct 10

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Private Endpoint traffic will no longer require source network address translation on customer's NVA to prevent Asymmetric Routing.

Oct 10

RETIREMENT

Support for Azure Load Balancer numberOfProbes property is ending

Oct 10

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now bring a “global” BYOIP range to azure that can be divided into multiple “regional” ranges across multiple Azure regions

Oct 10

NOW AVAILABLE

Designed for customers, especially developers or small enterprises who are looking for a cost-effective Application Load Balancer solution and don’t require high scalability and advanced features.

Oct 03

IN PREVIEW

A synthetic data generator and simulator for non-adversarial tasks is now available in public preview, accessible through the Azure AI evaluation SDK.

Oct 03

IN PREVIEW

New quality evaluations using popular ROUGE, BLEU, METEOR, and GLEU metrics are now available in public preview, accessible through the Azure AI SDK today with UI support coming in October 2024.

Oct 03

IN PREVIEW

Risk and safety evaluations for protected material (text) are now available in public preview, accessible through Azure AI Studio UI and SDK experiences.

Oct 03

IN PREVIEW

Risk and safety evaluations for indirect prompt injection attacks are now available in public preview, accessible through Azure AI Studio UI and SDK experiences.

Oct 03

RETIREMENT

Plan out your migration from Azure Spring Apps to Azure Container Apps.

Oct 03

RETIREMENT

Start using the Azure Monitor Agent instead of the Azure Diagnostics Agent before March 31st, 2026.

Oct 03

NOW AVAILABLE

As we continue to enhance your experience with Azure Monitor, we want to remind you about an important update of Log search alerts V2 non common scheme e-mail templates.

Oct 03

RETIREMENT

Azure Sphere (Legacy) service interfaces will be retired on September 27th, 2027 – plan your migration to Azure Sphere (Integrated).

Oct 03

IN PREVIEW

Take advantage of Azure Business Continuity (ABC) Center, a streamlined, centralized management center that simplifies backup and disaster recovery across various environments (Azure, Hybrid) and solutions (Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery).

Oct 03

NOW AVAILABLE

Save an additional 15% discount on 1-year Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instance rates for the latest Linux VMs. Offer valid from October 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025

Oct 03

IN PREVIEW

Announcing the preview of the new Azure Virtual Network Manager feature, enhancing your network management capability.

Oct 03

IN PREVIEW

The NVads V710 v5-series virtual machines are powered by AMD Radeon Pro V710 GPUs and AMD EPYC 9V64 (Genoa) CPUs, providing five VM sizes from 1/6 to a full V710 GPU with NVMe support for ephemeral local storage. These VMs are ideal for demanding GPU-accelerated graphics applications, cloud-based virtual desktops, high-quality gaming experiences, and small to medium AI/ML inference workloads

Oct 03

IN PREVIEW

The Azure NMads MA35D-Series virtual machines (VM) are now in public preview in the East US region, offering specialized hardware for optimized video transcoding workloads. This VM series provides higher throughput, lower latency, and access to modern codecs like AV1, making it an ideal choice for video transcoding on the cloud.

Oct 03

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Backup for SAP HANA Database Delivers More Value at Lower TCO with Reduced Protected Instance Fees starting Sept 1st, 2024

Oct 03

RETIREMENT

Important Notice: Support for SQL Data Sync service will be retired on September 30th,2027.

Oct 03

RETIREMENT

Azure Orbital Ground Station (AOGS) will be retired on December 16th, 2024. This includes 1st party antenna support and 3rd party partner network scheduling capabilities.

Oct 03

RETIREMENT

Support for NCv3-series VM family will be retired for Azure Batch pools on September 30th, 2025.

Oct 03

RETIREMENT

This article contains important information about required actions related to the retirement of Azure Automation State Configuration on September 30, 2027.

September 2024

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

The Microsoft Translator connector and its underlying API have been deprecated and will be disabled on Power Platform starting October 30, 2024. To avoid disruptions, transition to the Microsoft Translator V2 connector and Azure Text to Speech connector for the respective actions.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Plan out your migration for Open Service Mesh (OSM) to Istio.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Azure Maps support for Azure Maps Spatial APIs V1 & 2022-08-01 will be retired on September 30th 2025

Sep 26

IN PREVIEW

Azure Functions now supports .NET 9 preview 7, using the isolated worker model.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

The Virtual Network Injection feature for Azure Data Explorer is being deprecated due to its limitations and challenges. Customers are advised to migrate to a private endpoint-based network security architecture by February 1, 2025, to avoid any disruption

Sep 26

IN PREVIEW

We are excited to announce the public preview of Reporting and Microsoft Entra ID authentication for Microsoft Playwright Testing.

Sep 26

IN PREVIEW

You can now have multiple VM SKU in a node pool in AKS.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Plan out your migration from Open Service Mesh (OSM) to Istio add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Sep 26

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now enable long-term support (LTS) for Kubernetes version 1.30.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Effective January 10, 2025, Azure Kubernetes Service will no longer support or provide updates to the GPU image.

Sep 26

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now enable or disable FIPS on an existing Linux node pool in AKS.

Sep 26

NOW AVAILABLE

PHP 8.1 support is extending on App Service.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Support for Python 3.9 ends October 2025 upgrade apps to Python 3.10

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Support for PHP 8.2 ends December 31st, 2026, upgrade apps to PHP 8.3

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Start using the Azure Machine Learning model monitoring instead of the Azure Machine Learning data drift detection before September 1st, 2025.

Sep 26

NOW AVAILABLE

Optimize costs using the new dynamic scaling enhancement to autoscale for nonuniform workloads.

Sep 26

NOW AVAILABLE

VMs based on AMD 4th Gen EPYCTM processors with SEV-SNP technology paired with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs.

Sep 26

IN PREVIEW

The FXmsv2 and FXmdsv2 series are newest additions to the FX subfamily of VMs.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Migrate to Azure Load Balancer Inbound NAT rule V2 by September 30, 2027.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

The TLS versions 1.2 and later offer improved security with features such as perfect forward secrecy and stronger cipher suites.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Migrate to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium to avoid service disruptions.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

The TLS versions 1.2 and later offer improved security with features such as perfect forward secrecy and stronger cipher suites.

Sep 26

NOW AVAILABLE

Application Gateway for Containers now supports gRPC and frontend mutual authentication.  With both frontend and backend mutual authentication, end-to-end mutual authentication is now possible.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Intent Recognition an Azure AI Speech feature will be retired on September 30th, 2025.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Network security group flow logs in Azure Network Watcher will be retired on September 30th, 2027.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Azure AI Speaker Recognition will be retired on September 30, 2025.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Classic Alerts for Azure Site Recovery is on a retirement journey. Migrate to an improved solution using Azure Monitor by Sept 23 2027.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Conversation Transcription Service provided speaker diarization with multichannel audio will be retired on March 28th ,2025.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Retirement notice: VPN Gateway Non-Availability Zone SKU (VpnGw 1-5)

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Helm v2 reached end of life status in November 2020. Therefore, Azure Container Registry will end support for Helm v2 and Helm repositories on March 30th, 2025. Please transition to Helm v3 and store your Helm Charts as OCI Artifacts.

Sep 26

RETIREMENT

Azure Product Retirement: Azure Automanage Best Practices on 09/30/2027. Replace with Azure Policy.

Sep 26

NOW AVAILABLE

Save up to 65% on V5 compute resources by using reserved capacity pricing.

Sep 26

NOW AVAILABLE

Take advantage of a lower cost option for your Redis workloads.

Sep 26

NOW AVAILABLE

Experience seamless online migration with minimal application downtime.

Sep 26

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 16.4, 15.8, 14.13, 13.16, 12.20, and 17 Beta 3.

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

This post contains information about pre-retirement actions related to the retirement of Microsoft Purview Data Sharing.

Sep 19

NOW AVAILABLE

Access-based enumeration and non-browsable shares for SMB and dual-protocol volumes in Azure NetApp Files is now generally available

Sep 19

NOW AVAILABLE

Cost savings and improved financial predictability with Azure NetApp Files Reserved Capacity

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Azure Maps support for Creator Services APIs V2 & 2023-03-01-preview will be retired on September 30, 2025

Sep 19

NOW AVAILABLE

Customers will now be able to detach the ZRS data disks and attach them to another VM, decreasing the RTO.

Sep 19

IN PREVIEW

Microsoft’s Azure container Networking team is announcing availability of FQDN filtering and HA DNS proxy within Advanced Container Networking Services on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). These new features provide a robust and secure solution for managing network traffic in containerized environments.

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Azure Remote Rendering will be retired on September 30th, 2025. Please plan to stop usage and delete your Remote Rendering account by September 30th, 2025.

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

SQL Insights (preview) will be retired on December 31, 2024.

Sep 19

IN PREVIEW

We are excited to announce a new way of exporting platform metrics from Azure Monitor. This powerful addition allows customers to export metrics for their Azure resources on a large scale, with full fidelity and low latency, along with the ability to select particular metrics while configuring exports.

Sep 19

NOW AVAILABLE

Automated Patching retirement and replacement with Azure Update Manager.

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Support for PowerShell 7.2 on Azure Functions is ending soon. Your apps that are hosted on Azure Functions will continue to run, but security updates will no longer be available, and we’ll no longer provide customer service for PowerShell 7.2. Learn more about Azure Functions stack version support.

Sep 19

NOW AVAILABLE

General Availability of Azure Data Box 80 TB at Azure China

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Azure SQL Edge will be retired on September 30, 2025. Upon retirement, workloads deployed to existing SQL Edge modules and containers will continue to run as-is; there will be no additional support provided for SQL Edge and no further updates will be published. We encourage you to consider migrating to an alternative solution prior to the retirement date to ensure a smooth transition to a fully supported product.

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Microsoft Genomics Service will be retired on January 6, 2025

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Azure Maps support for Azure Maps Data Registry APIs V 2023-06-01 will be retired on September 30th, 2025

Sep 19

NOW AVAILABLE

This update also provides improvement and bug fixes.

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Azure AI Vision Image Analysis 4.0 Custom Image Classification, Custom Object Detection, Product Recognition and Segment (Background Removal) Preview APIs and Spatial Analysis Edge container to be retired.

Sep 19

RETIREMENT

Azure Managed Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework Preview support is ending soon. Please migrate any resources to Azure Confidential Ledger.

Sep 12

RETIREMENT

The Azure PostgreSQL migration extension in Azure Data Studio is being retired to focus on more advanced and supported migration services within the Azure Database for PostgreSQL portal and CLI. This change ensures customers have access to up-to-date features for their migration needs.

Sep 12

NOW AVAILABLE

Experience a new way to run Java applications on Azure Container Apps.

Sep 12

IN PREVIEW

We are thrilled to introduce the Public Preview of built-in actions for document parsing and chunking in Logic Apps Standard, designed to streamline RAG-based ingestion for Generative AI applications. With these out-of-the-box operations, you can now easily ingest documents or files, including both structured and unstructured data, into AI Search without writing or managing any code!

Sep 12

IN PREVIEW

Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Linux OS) is now available for private preview.

Sep 12

IN PREVIEW

Azure Firewall enhances the Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) rule configuration to support port translation on its Private IP address.

Sep 12

RETIREMENT

Azure AI Document Intelligence GA AI v2.1 will be retiring soon. Please migrate to newer API version to continue operation.

Sep 12

IN PREVIEW

Seamlessly deliver content over low-bandwidth, high latency, or unreliable networks.

Sep 12

IN PREVIEW

This feature is the ability to increase your Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disk storage capacity without stopping your VM.

Sep 12

NOW AVAILABLE

You can now take advantage of PowerShell 7.4 capabilities with your Functions apps.

Sep 12

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools are now generally available.

Sep 12

NOW AVAILABLE

IoT Edge now supports Ubuntu Server 24.04, Debian 12, and Yocto Scarthgap.

Sep 05

RETIREMENT

This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure App Service Environment v1/v2 on August 31, 2024.

Sep 05

NOW AVAILABLE

Auto-renewal of certificates for on-premises to Azure Site Recovery.

Sep 05

IN PREVIEW

We are excited to announce new enhancements to our GenAI Gateway capabilities, specifically designed for large language model (LLM) use cases. Building on our initial release in May 2024, we are introducing new policies to support a wider range of LLMs via the Azure AI Model Inference API. These new policies offer the same robust functionality as our initial offerings but are now compatible with a broader array of models available in Azure AI Studio.

Sep 05

IN PREVIEW

Learn more about the Public Preview announcement of Azure Container Storage enabled by Azure Arc Edge Volumes.

Sep 05

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Storage Mover with WAN link bandwidth management schedules is now generally available.

Sep 05

NOW AVAILABLE

We are excited to announce that customers can now choose between Replace, Reimage (New), or Restart (New) as the default repair action performed in response to an "Unhealthy" application signal.

Sep 05

IN PREVIEW

We're excited to announce the Public Preview of Templates Support in Azure Logic Apps Standard, providing pre-built workflow solutions to streamline and accelerate integration projects. This new feature allows developers to quickly set up, customize, and deploy workflows, simplifying the process of building and managing applications.

Sep 05

IN PREVIEW

We’re excited to introduce Insights support for Azure Logic Apps Standard, offering curated visualizations to help you monitor your applications and workflows more effectively. With these new dashboards, you gain a comprehensive view of your Logic Apps Standard environments, enabling better oversight of your integration scenarios.

Sep 05

IN PREVIEW

Entra ID support for SSH connections is now supported in the portal experience for a quicker, more secure, one click experience.

Sep 05

RETIREMENT

This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure API Management stv1 on August 31, 2024.

Sep 05

RETIREMENT

This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment (ISE) on August 31, 2024.

Sep 05

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Public IPs are now zone redundant by default in 12 regions.

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