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Monthly updates for March 2023

Mar 31

Action recommended: Implement disaster recovery strategies for your Azure App Service web apps by 31 March 2025

Target retirement date: March 31, 2025

We'll no longer place apps in disaster recovery mode in the event of a regional disaster.

  • App Service
  • Retirements
Mar 31

The “managed” IoT Edge solution on Azure stack Edge will be retired on March 31, 2024. Transition your IoT Edge workloads to an IoT Edge solution running on a Linux VM on Azure Stack Edge.

Target retirement date: March 31, 2024

The “managed” IoT Edge solution on Azure Stack Edge will be retired on 31 March 2024

  • Retirements
Mar 31

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server will be retired—migrate to Flexible Server by 28 March 2025

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: March 30, 2023

On 28 March 2025, Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server will be retired, and you'll need to migrate to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server by that date.

  • Azure Database for PostgreSQL
  • Retirements
Mar 31

Action Required: Transition to DCR-based KQL transformations by 31 March 2026 

Target retirement date: March 31, 2026

Custom fields feature will be retired on 31 March 2026

  • Azure Monitor
  • Retirements
Mar 31

Azure CDN will be retiring Azure CDN Standard from Akamai on 31 October 2023 – transition to another CDN profile to avoid service interruption

Target retirement date: November 01, 2023

Azure CDN Standard from Akamai is being retired and services will end on 31 October 2023

  • Retirements
Mar 31

SQL Server connector’s V1 actions and triggers will be retired on 31 March 2024 – transition to SQL Server connector’s V2 actions and triggers

Target retirement date: March 31, 2024

SQL Server connector’s V1 actions and triggers will be retired on 31 March 2024

  • Logic Apps
  • Retirements
Mar 31

Retirement notice: Migrate from Public Peering by March 31, 2024

Target retirement date: April 01, 2024

ExpressRoute Public Peering will be retired on March 31, 2024.

  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • ExpressRoute Circuits
  • Retirements
Mar 31

Classic experience to protect VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery will be retired on 30 March 2026

Target retirement date: March 30, 2026

Azure Site Recovery’s classic experience to protect VMware VMs will be retired on 30 March 2026

  • Azure Site Recovery
  • Retirements
Mar 31

Transition to built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Recovery Services vaults in Azure Backup by 31 March 2026

Target retirement date: March 31, 2026

Classic alerts for Azure Backup will be retired on 31 March, 2026

  • Azure Backup
  • Retirements
Mar 24

Docker container runtime retirement for Windows node pools effective May 1, 2023

NOW AVAILABLE

Migrate to containers before May 1, 2023

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Retirements
Mar 24

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
Mar 24

AKS will stop support for Windows Server 2019 on March 1 2026

IN DEVELOPMENT

Transition your Kubernetes workloads on Windows Server 2019 to Windows Server 2022 by March 1 2026.

  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Retirements
Mar 24

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
Mar 24

Azure Automation is retiring Agent-based User Hybrid Runbook Worker (Windows & Linux) on 31 August 2024

Target retirement date: September 01, 2024

Azure Automation is retiring Agent-based User Hybrid Runbook Worker on 31 August 2024

  • Retirements
Mar 24

Azure Maps Elevation APIs and Render V2 DEM tiles will be retired on 5 May 2023

To avoid service disruption in your applications, please review the following migration options and transition before 5 May 2023.

  • Azure Maps
  • Retirements
Mar 17

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

Target retirement date: April 01, 2026

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

  • Batch
  • Retirements
  • Features
Mar 17

Retirement Announcement: Assigning alert trigger playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules

Target retirement date: March 15, 2026

Effective 15 March 2026, adding playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules creation/edit will be deprecated.

  • Microsoft Sentinel
  • Security
  • Retirements
Mar 17

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

Target retirement date: April 01, 2026

Transition Batch pools to the Simplified compute node communication model

  • Batch
  • Retirements
Mar 17

We’re retiring Cluster Configuration with Flux v1 on 24 May 2025 – transition to GitOps extension for Kubernetes to move to Flux v2

Target retirement date: May 24, 2025

Migrate to GitOps Extension for Flux v2 by 24 May 2025

  • Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes
  • Retirements
Mar 17

Container insights recommended alerts (custom metrics) (preview) will be retired on 14 March 2026

NOW AVAILABLE

Target retirement date: March 14, 2026

Transition to Prometheus recommended alert rules (preview) before 14 March 2026.

  • Retirements

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