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Retirement: HTTP application routing add-on (preview) for AKS will retire 03/03/2025
Target retirement date: March 03, 2025
Transition your ingresses to Web Application routing add-on before 3/3/2025 to avoid service disruptions.
Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage Python client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Target retirement date: September 13, 2024
Upgrade to the latest version of the libraries before the Legacy Azure Storage Python client libraries are retired on 13 September 2024.
Retirement notice: The Azure Storage Ruby client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Target retirement date: September 13, 2024
Azure Storage Ruby client libraries are being retired on 13 September 2024 - Transition to calling the Azure Storage REST API directly from your Ruby applications
Retirement notice: The legacy Azure Storage Go client libraries will be retired on 13 September 2024
Target retirement date: September 13, 2024
Upgrade to the latest version of the libraries before the Legacy Azure Storage Go client libraries are retired on 13 September 2024.
Azure AI Video Indexer features adjustments following Media Services Retirement
Target retirement date: July 01, 2024
Azure AI Video Indexer classic accounts will be retired on 30 June 2024 due to Azure Media Service retirement - migrate your current resources to ARM accounts.
Announcing Azure FXT Edge Filer Retirement
Target retirement date: January 01, 2027
Azure FXT Edge Filer will be end of sale on 31 December 2023 with end of support on 31 December 2026
Retirement: Azure AI Document Intelligence v2.0 API will be retired on 31 August 2026
Azure AI Document Intelligence v2.0 API will be retired on 31 August 2026 – Upgrade to v3.1 general availability API version
Project Azure FarmBeats will be retired on 30 Sep 2023 – transition to Azure Data Manager for Agriculture.
Target retirement date: September 30, 2023
Project Azure FarmBeats will be retired on September 30, 2023
Azure Maps Gen1 Price Tier will be retired on 15 September 2026 -- transition to Azure Maps Gen2 Price Tier
Target retirement date: September 15, 2026
Azure Maps Gen1 Price Tier will be retired on 15 September 2026
Important Notice: Azure Product Retirement: End of Life Announcement of Azure Sphere classic CLI on 30 September 2024. Replace with Azure Sphere CLI
Target retirement date: September 30, 2024
Azure Sphere support for Azure Sphere classic CLI will be retired on 30 September 2024
August 2023
Retirement: Azure Container Apps preview API versions 2022-06-01-preview and 2022-11-01-preview
Target retirement date: November 16, 2023
If you're using Azure Resource Manager API version 2022-06-01-preview or 2022-11-01-preview to manage Azure Container Apps, please update your API requests to use version 2023-04-01-preview or later.
July 2023
Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026.
Target availability: Q1 2026
Speech-to-text REST API v3.0 will be retired by 31 March 2026. Update your code that uses Speech-to-text REST API. We recently updated the Speech-to-text REST API to version 3.1. Version 3.1 builds on the capabilities of the previous version and adds new features including language identification and multi-speaker diarization. With these enhancements, we'll retire version 3.0 of the API on 31 March 2026.
Retirement notice: Azure Media Services is being retired on 30 June 2024
Target retirement date: June 30, 2024
Azure Media Services will be retired on 30 June 2024 - transition to a Microsoft partner solution or Azure Video Indexer
June 2023
Retirement notice: Move to Azure Load Testing GA API versions by 10 September 2023
Target retirement date: September 10, 2023
Retirement notice: Move to Azure Load Testing GA API versions by 10 September 2023
Azure HDinsight Spark 2.4 approaching EOL
Azure HDInsight for Apache Spark 2.4 will be retired as of February 10, 2024.
May 2023
Transition to Azure AD to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by 31 March 2026
Target retirement date: March 31, 2026
API keys for querying data from Azure Monitor application insights will be retired on 31 March 2026
Switch to Azure AD authentication for application insights by 30 September 2025
Target retirement date: September 30, 2025
API keys used to stream live metrics telemetry into application insights will be retired on 30 September 2025.
General Availability : Azure Monitor for SAP solutions
This is a GA launch announcement blog for Azure Monitor for SAP solutions.
We're retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023
Target retirement date: May 12, 2023
We recently made the Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 generally available. With this release, we'll retire the preview version v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023.
Retirement of SQL Server Native Client (SNAC) OLE DB provider for linked servers in Azure SQL Managed Instance
Target retirement date: June 01, 2023
All existing linked server objects configured to use SQLNCLI will automatically switch to using the fully compatible third (current) generation of provider – known as Microsoft OLE DB Driver for SQL Server or MSOLEDBSQL.
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