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Monthly updates for February 2020
Service Management REST APIs and support will be retired on November 1, 2021
Target retirement date: November 01, 2021
To continue using Service Bus, Relay, and Event Hubs, please move your APIs to Azure Resource Manager.
Migrate your IaaS resources to Azure Resource Manager by March 1, 2023
Target retirement date: March 01, 2023
We encourage you to make the switch to Azure Resource Manager to take advantage of the many feature enhancements in ARM.
Azure Site Recovery data encryption feature will be retired April 30, 2022
Target retirement date: April 30, 2022
This will be replaced by the more advanced Encryption at Rest with Azure Site Recovery, which uses Storage Service Encryption (SSE).
We are retiring Azure AD Domain Services classic VNET support on March 1, 2023
Target retirement date: March 01, 2023
In 2017, Azure AD Domain Services became available to host in an Azure Resource Manager network. Since then, we have been able to build a more secure service using the Azure Resource Manager‘s modern capabilities.
We’re retiring some Azure Site Recovery support options on March 1, 2023
Target retirement date: March 01, 2023
As we continue to invest in Azure Site Recovery (ASR) capabilities, we are going to focus our engineering efforts on disaster recovery to Azure scenarios.
(updated) Azure StorSimple 8000/1200 series will no longer be supported starting December 31, 2022
Target retirement date: December 31, 2022
Microsoft has been expanding the portfolio of Azure Hybrid storage capabilities with new services for data tiering and cloud ingestion, providing more options to customers for storing data in Azure in native formats. In conjunction with this, support for the following StorSimple versions will end December 31, 2022.
A8 – A11 Azure Virtual Machine sizes will be retired on March 1, 2021
Target retirement date: March 01, 2021
We recommend moving your high performance computing (HPC) workloads to another HPC Virtual Machine size.
Cognitive Services Bing Speech API is being retired November 1, 2021
Target retirement date: November 01, 2021
To continue providing speech recognition and translation capabilities in your current Bing Speech applications, you’ll need to migrate them to Speech Services and the Speech SDK
We are retiring Azure Media Analytics preview processors on June 1, 2020
Target retirement date: June 01, 2020
We’ve made significant investments to Video Optical Character Recognition, Face Detector, and Content Moderator, as a part of the general availability of Azure Media Services: Video Indexer.
Move from App Center Auth and Data Preview services to alternative Azure services before 3 May 2020
Target retirement date: May 04, 2020
The long-term path is for developers to use the native Azure services as a backend for mobile apps, namely: Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Notification Hubs.
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