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Retirement notice: Bing Speech will be retired on 3 November 2023
Target retirement date: November 03, 2023
Migrate from Bing Speech to Speech Services and the Speech SDK by 3 November 2023
Azure Cosmos DB built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired March 30, 2024
Target retirement date: March 30, 2024
On 30 March 2024, the Azure Cosmos DB preview of built-in Jupyter notebooks will be retired. If you’re using notebooks to interact with your Azure Cosmos DB account, transition to run these notebooks using Visual Studio Code’s support for Jupyter notebooks, or your preferred notebooks client.
Azure Activity Logs Legacy solution is replaced by Diagnostic settings
Target retirement date: September 15, 2026
Deprecation of Azure Activity Logs legacy solution and auto migration
Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 on Azure Cache for Redis ending on 31 October 2024
Target retirement date: November 01, 2024
Azure Cache for Redis support for TLS 1.0/1.1 will be retired on 31 October 2024.
Support for Azure Machine Learning Explanation and Fairness Dashboards is ending on 14 March 2025
Target retirement date: March 14, 2025
The Explanation and Fairness Dashboard will be retired on 14 March 2025, please transition to the Responsible AI Dashboard (generally available) by that date. The Responsible AI dashboard will have feature parity and new additional features. You can still create and view the Explanation and Fairness dashboards with our open-source offerings (InterpretML and Fairlearn respectively), which are free for public use on GitHub and will continue to be maintained.
Migrate to Azure Monitor agent–based VM insights by 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Log Analytics agent–based VM insights will be retired.
Some Azure Service Bus SDK libraries will be retired on 30 September 2026—migrate to the latest SDKs
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Azure Service Bus SDK libraries that don't conform to Azure SDK guidelines will be retired and support will end.
September 2023
Azure API for FHIR retiring on 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
Migrate your data from Azure API for FHIR to Azure Health Data Services FHIR service for richer data integration and analytics capabilities.
Azure Internet Analyzer will be retired on 15 March 2024 – delete profiles
Target retirement date: March 15, 2024
Azure Internet Analyzer will be retired on 15 March 2024
Transition to the ContainerLogV2 table by 30 September 2026
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
With the upgraded offering of ContainerLogV2 becoming generally available, on 30th September 2026, the ContainerLog table will be retired. If you currently ingest container insights data to the ContainerLog table, please make sure to transition to using ContainerLogV2 prior to that date.
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
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
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
Action required: Migrate to using ARG query for “Get Alert Summary” in Azure Monitor
Target retirement date: September 30, 2026
The GetAlertSummary API will be retired on 30-Sep-2026.
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
Azure CycleCloud support for HTCondor scheduler cluster type will be retired on 30 September 2024
Target retirement date: October 01, 2024
Community support for Azure CycleCloud HTCondor scheduler cluster type is ending on 30 September 2024
Azure CycleCloud support for BeeGFS filesystem cluster type will be retired on 30 September 2024
Target retirement date: October 01, 2024
Community support for Azure CycleCloud BeeGFS filesystem cluster type is ending on 30 September 2024
Azure CycleCloud support for automatic configuration of LVM for Azure CycleCloud volume mounts will be retired on 30 September 2024
Target retirement date: October 01, 2024
Community support for Automatic configuration of LVM for Azure CycleCloud volume mounts is ending on 30 September 2024
AI Services Personalizer will be retired on 1 October 2026
AI Services Personalizer will be retired on 1 October 2026
Azure AI Translator S2-S4 billing instances will be retired on 1 October 2026 – transition to Commitment Tiers for discounted pricing.
Target retirement date: October 01, 2026
Retirement notice: Translator S2-S4 Volume Discount Instances will be retired on 1 October 2026
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