Updates Archives
Monthly updates for March 2024
Azure Content Moderator will be retired on 15 March 2027
Target retirement date: March 15, 2027
We encourage users to explore our new offering Azure AI Content Safety that offers both new and updated capabilities to meet your content moderation needs.
Basic and Standard A-series VMs on HDInsight will retire on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
On 31 August 2024, Azure will retire Basic and Standard A-series VMs as announced earlier on 24 August 2021. Before 31 August 2024, you need to migrate your HDInsight A series VMs to Av2-series VMs, which provide more memory per vCPU and faster storage on solid-state drives (SSDs). To avoid service disruptions, migrate your workloads from Basic and Standard A-series VMs to Av2-series VMs before 31 August 2024.
Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support
Target retirement date: July 08, 2024
End of Support for Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2. Apache Spark 3.2 will be retired and disabled as of July 8, 2024.
Support for Connector for AWS in Cost Management is ending on 31 March 2025
Target retirement date: April 01, 2025
The Connector for AWS in the Cost Management service will be retired on 31 March 2025. By that date, please consider alternative cost management reporting for AWS available in the market.
Retirement: Support for .NET 7 ends on 14 May 2024—upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8
Target retirement date: May 24, 2024
Upgrade your Azure Functions resources to .NET 8 by 14 May 2024
Update to Azure Functions Service Bus extension v5.x by 31 March 2025 for continued support
Target retirement date: March 31, 2025
Applications that are using the Azure Functions Service Bus extension v4.x will be unsupported after 31 March 2025
Azure Maps Native SDK for Android and iOS will be retired on 31 March 2025 – transition to use Azure Maps Web SDK in a web view
Target retirement date: March 31, 2025
Azure Maps Native SDK for Android and iOS will be retired on 31 March 2025
Action recommended: Update to using Grafana version 10 for Azure Managed Grafana
Target retirement date: September 30, 2024
The Grafana version 9 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Default Internet outbound access for Simplified node communication Batch pools without public IP addresses will be retired on 30 September 2025
Target retirement date: October 01, 2025
End of life announcement for default Internet outbound access for Simplified node communication Batch pools without public IP addresses on 30 September 2025
HPC Pack 2016 will be retired on 12 January 2027
Target retirement date: January 13, 2027
End of life announcement for HPC Pack 2016 on 12 January 2027
Support for Standard_M192idms_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027
Target retirement date: March 14, 2027
Community support for Standard_M192idms_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027
Community support for Standard_M192ids_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027
Target retirement date: March 18, 2027
Support for Standard_M192ids_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027
Community support for Standard_M192ims_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027
Target retirement date: March 19, 2027
Support for Standard_M192ims_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027.
Community support for Standard_M192is_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027
Support for Standard_M192is_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027.
Some compliance features in Microsoft Defender for Cloud will be retired on September 30, 2025
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
Microsoft Actions and Compliance offerings, two regulatory compliance features in public preview, will no longer be available through the Defender for Cloud portal pages starting September 30, 2025.
Azure HDInsight 4.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025 - migrate your HDInsight clusters to 5.1
Target retirement date: March 31, 2025
Azure HDInsight 4.0 will be retired on 31 March 2025 - migrate your HDInsight clusters to 5.1
Announcing Azure HPC Cache Retirement
Target retirement date: October 01, 2025
Azure HPC Cache is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025.
Announcing Avere vFXT for Azure Retirement
Target retirement date: October 01, 2025
Avere vFXT for Azure is retiring. End of support is 30 September 2025.
Azure Classic Administrator roles are retiring on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
On 31 August 2024, Azure classic administrator roles will be retired. Transition from Azure Classic Administrator roles to RBAC roles
Visual Studio App Center retirement
Target retirement date: March 31, 2025
Visual Studio App Center is scheduled for retirement on March 31, 2025.
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