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March 2024

29 Mar

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

  • Retirements
22 Mar

Important Notice: Azure Product Retirement: End of Life Announcement of Azure Maps Creator Feature State Service Versions 31 March 2025

Target availability: Q1 2025

Azure Maps Creator Feature State Service will be retired on 31 March 2025.  

  • Features

September 2023

22 Sep

Azure Monitor Data Collection API Retirement 

Target retirement date: September 18, 2026

Support for Data Collector API feature is being discontinued. This feature allowed users to ingest custom logs into Log Analytics workspaces. DCR-based Log Ingestion API now provides similar capabilities with added flexibility of data transformation and support of secure authentication methods.

  • Azure Monitor
  • Retirements

February 2019

22 Feb

Azure Analysis Services web designer to be discontinued

The Azure Analysis Services web designer will be removed from the Azure portal as early as 1st March 2019.

  • Services
  • Retirements

January 2018

17 Jan

Change in Mercury DB and Titan DB service plans

ClearDB is discontinuing the Mercury DB and Titan DB service plans in the Azure platform.

  • App Service
  • Features

May 2016

26 May

Azure Web Apps Gallery now supported only in Azure Marketplace

Customers can no longer create gallery applications in the Azure classic portal, but they can create these applications in the Azure portal and take advantage of the features there.

  • App Service
  • Marketplace
  • Services
  • Features

October 2014

2 Oct

General Availability: Azure Site Recovery replication to Azure

NOW AVAILABLE

Now you can replicate the Hyper-V virtual machines running in your datacenter to Azure for disaster recovery protection—and recover them there, as needed.

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Services

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