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Continuous delivery setting of Azure VM will be retired on 31 March 2023 – Use Azure DevOps to create pipelines
Target retirement date: March 31, 2023
Start using Azure Pipelines by 31 March 2023 instead of Azure Portal to create Continuous delivery pipelines for Azure Virtual Machines.
Deployment Center setting of Azure Kubernetes service (AKS) will be retired on 31 March 2023 – Use Automated Deployments to create pipelines
Target retirement date: March 31, 2023
Retirement notice: Deployment center setting of Azure Kubernetes Service will be retired 31 March 2023.
On 1 October 2025, the Log Analytics alert API in Azure Monitor will be retired
Target retirement date: January 10, 2025
On 1 October 2025, the Log Analytics alert API in Azure Monitor will be retired.
August 2022
Retirement of Computer Vision API v3.2 previews
Target retirement date: January 30, 2023
Migrate your workloads to Computer Vision API v3.2 GA before 30 January 2023.
July 2022
Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition
Target retirement date: July 01, 2023
The Cognitive Services team has updated our approach to facial recognition including adding a new Limited Access policy, removing AI classifiers of sensitive attributes and bolstering our investments in fairness and transparency.
May 2022
General availability: Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 using Azure Portal
Migrate your data from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Gen2 to speed up your time to insights
Azure VM insights guest health (preview) will be retired on 30 November 2022
Target retirement date: November 30, 2022
Transition to Azure Monitor log alerts for VM guest health by 30 November 2022.
Azure Video Analyzer (preview) will be retired on 30 November 2022
Target retirement date: November 30, 2022
Azure Video Analyzer (preview) will be retired on 30 November 2022 – transition to either Dynamics Connected Spaces or Open Source solutions by that date
April 2022
Azure Machine Learning Reinforcement Learning preview will be retired on 30 June 2022
Target retirement date: June 30, 2022
Start using Ray on Azure Machine Learning Library before 30 June 2022.
Update: Azure AD Graph retirement date
Update your apps to use Microsoft Graph.
March 2022
Azure classic storage accounts will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate your classic storage accounts to Azure Resource Manager by 31 August 2024.
NV-series and NV Promo Azure Virtual Machines retirement extended to 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Move to GPU accelerated virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
ND-series Azure Virtual Machines retirement extended to 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
Update: NV-series and NV_Promo Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Move to GPU accelerated virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
Update: ND-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
Update: NC v2-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
NC v2-series Azure Virtual Machines retirement extended to 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
NC-series Azure Virtual Machines retirement extended to 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
Update: NC-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on 31 August 2023
Target retirement date: August 31, 2023
Transition to new HPC virtual machines by 31 August 2023.
App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024
Target retirement date: August 31, 2024
Migrate to App Service Environment version 3 by 31 August 2024.
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