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March 2024

29 Mar

Support for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for Batch pools will be retired on 23 April 2025

Target retirement date: April 24, 2025

End of life announcement for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS support for Azure Batch pools on 23 April 2025

  • Batch
  • Retirements
22 Mar

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

  • Retirements

September 2023

29 Sep

Support for select marketplace images for Batch pools will be retired

Target retirement date: January 10, 2024

End of life announcement for select marketplace images for Batch pools

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Operating System
29 Sep

Azure Batch pool list usage metrics API will be retired on 30 September 2024

Target retirement date: October 01, 2024

End of Life Announcement of Azure Batch Pool List Usage Metrics API on 30 September 2024

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features
29 Sep

Azure Batch CLI extensions will be retired on 30 September 2024

Target retirement date: October 01, 2024

End of Life Announcement of Azure Batch CLI Extensions on 30 September 2024

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • SDK and Tools
29 Sep

Azure Batch task authentication token will be retired on 30 September 2024

Target retirement date: October 01, 2024

End of life announcement of Azure Batch task authentication token on 30 September 2024

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features

March 2023

24 Mar

Batch custom image pools using VHD or managed images will be retired on 31 March 2026

Target retirement date: April 01, 2026

Transition custom image pools use images from Azure Compute Gallery

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features
24 Mar

Batch Service in select regions will be retired on 31 March 2026

Target retirement date: April 01, 2026

Migrate your Batch workloads before 31 March 2026 to other regions where Azure Batch will continue to be available.

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Services
17 Mar

Select Batch Pool autoscale service-defined variables will be retired on 31st March, 2024

Target retirement date: April 01, 2026

Remove references in your autoscale formula for the service-defined variables

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features
17 Mar

Azure Batch classic compute node communication model will be retired on 31st March, 2026

Target retirement date: April 01, 2026

Transition Batch pools to the Simplified compute node communication model

  • Batch
  • Retirements

October 2022

7 Oct

Azure Batch Certificates will be retired on 29 February 2024

Target retirement date: March 01, 2024

Retirement Notice: Transition to Azure Key Vault before 29 February 2024.

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features
7 Oct

Azure Batch pools without public IP addresses (classic) will be retired on 31 March, 2023

Target retirement date: April 01, 2023

Retirement notice: Transition to Simplified compute node communication pools without public IP addresses by 31 March, 2023

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features

September 2022

30 Sep

Azure Batch Low Priority VMs will be retired on 30 September 2025

Target retirement date: October 01, 2025

Retirement Notice: Transition to Azure Batch Spot VMs before 30 September 2025.

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features
30 Sep

Azure Batch Job/Pool Lifetime Statistics API will be retired on 30 April 2023

Target retirement date: May 01, 2023

Retirement Notice: Stop using Batch Job/Pool Lifetime Statistics API by 30 April 2023.

  • Batch
  • Retirements
30 Sep

Azure Batch TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 31 March 2023

Target retirement date: April 01, 2023

Retirement notice: Transition to Azure Batch TLS 1.2 by 31 March 2023.

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features

October 2017

15 Oct

Azure Batch AI Service

IN PREVIEW

Azure Batch AI Preview is now available. Azure Batch AI Preview helps you train and test deep learning and other machine learning models using GPU and CPU clusters.

  • Features
12 Oct

Public preview: Azure Batch AI

IN PREVIEW

The Batch AI service enters public preview on October 9.

  • Services

July 2017

12 Jul

Azure Batch updates

Application packages can be used with VirtualMachineConfiguration pools, new metrics are available for low-priority VMs, and new template and file transfer capabilities are available in the Azure CLI for Batch.

  • Batch
  • Features

May 2017

12 May

Azure Batch Rendering Service

NOW AVAILABLE

Azure Batch Rendering accelerates large scale rendering jobs to deliver results to our customers faster.

  • Features
12 May

Azure Batch AI Training for deep learning models

IN PREVIEW

Azure Batch AI Training, a new addition to Azure Batch which will target data scientists and AI researchers, as well as those who train and test deep learning and other AI models, will soon be available. Users will specify their job requirements and the path to model and data and Batch will take care of provisioning a cluster and running the jobs.

  • Features

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