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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.
Private Preview: Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage
Force detach zone redundant disks during zone outage and take advantage of ZRS ability to achieve an RPO of 0.
General Availability: Azure NetApp Files support for 1 TiB capacity pools
Azure NetApp Files now supports smaller 1 TiB capacity pool sizes, lowered from 2 TiB, when used with volumes using standard network features.
Public Preview: Next generation of general purpose service tier for Azure SQL Managed Instance
Target availability: Q1 2024
The next generation of general purpose service tier brings improved performance, 32 TB storage and higher database density.
Public preview: Public IP Domain Name Label Scope
Announcing the public preview for a new capability in Azure public IP address that can prevent DNS subdomain takeover while still allowing for re-use of DNS names.
Public preview: Database watcher for Azure SQL
Target availability: Q1 2024
Enable in-depth, managed monitoring of Azure SQL databases, elastic pools, and managed instances.
Generally available: Application Gateway (v2) IPv6 support
Azure Application Gateway v2 enables dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) connectivity from the clients, providing more flexible and reliable access to the backend Applications.
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