Updates Archives
Monthly updates for March 2023
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.
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
Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server will be retired—migrate to Flexible Server by 28 March 2025
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.
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 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
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
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.
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
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
Docker container runtime retirement for Windows node pools effective May 1, 2023
Migrate to containers before May 1, 2023
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
AKS will stop support for Windows Server 2019 on March 1 2026
Transition your Kubernetes workloads on Windows Server 2019 to Windows Server 2022 by March 1 2026.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
Container insights recommended alerts (custom metrics) (preview) will be retired on 14 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 14, 2026
Transition to Prometheus recommended alert rules (preview) before 14 March 2026.
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