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Azure Dev Spaces retired on May 15, 2021
Take advantage of Bridge for Kubernetes for development scenarios that Azure Dev Spaces previously supported.
May 2021
Action Required: Migrate your Azure Blockchain Service data by 10 September 2021
Target retirement date: September 10, 2021
Migrate your data to the ConsenSys Quorum Blockchain Service.
Azure Data Share Preview API versions will no longer be supported starting August 1, 2021
Target retirement date: August 01, 2021
Beginning August 1, 2021, you will no longer be able to access Azure Data Share preview API versions (2018-11-01-preview, 2020-06-01-preview) through REST API or SDK.
April 2021
Action required: upgrade your AML cluster to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS by 30 April 2021
Target retirement date: April 30, 2021
Ubuntu 16.04 community support ends on 30 April 2021 – Transition to 18.04 immediately
March 2021
Wire Data 2.0 (preview) will be retired on 31 March 2022
Target retirement date: March 31, 2022
Because Azure Monitor Virtual Machine insights and Service Map both provide network connection data sets in Logs, utilize the Dependency agent, and have connections with Azure Sentinel, we will be retiring Wire Data 2.0 (preview) on 31 March 2022. Please transition to using Azure Monitor Virtual Machine insights or Service Map by that date.
February 2021
We are retiring Classic Azure Migrate on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to Azure Migrate by 29 February 2024.
Action required: Switch to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 by 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Migrate to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Update the Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK by 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
We’ll be retiring version Sync 2.x of the Azure Cosmos DB Java SDK.
Start using new alerts in Azure Monitor for Azure Government Cloud
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Classic alerts in Azure Monitor will be retired on 29 February 2024
Start using new alerts in Azure Monitor for Azure China 21Vianet
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Classic alerts in Azure Monitor will be retired on 29 February 2024.
Azure Stack Edge Pro FPGA is retiring on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 28, 2024
Upgrade to the new Azure Stack Edge Pro GPU devices.
Azure Batch rendering VM images & licensing will be retired on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Azure Batching rendering VM images & licensing are being retired.
We’re retiring the standard version of Custom Voice on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Upgrade to Custom Neural Voice.
We are retiring Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics v2.x on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics v3.
Please upgrade your Azure AD Connect sync to a newer version by 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
We’re retiring older versions of Azure Active Directory Connect.
Azure Batch Transcription and Customization Rest API v2 will be retired by 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Update your code that uses Azure Batch Transcription and Customization Rest API.
Azure Application Gateway analytics will be retired on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to Azure Monitor Network Insights workbook.
Update your Azure Media Services REST API and SDKs to v3 by 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
We’ll be retiring version 2 of the Azure Media Services API and the associated client SDKs on 29 February 2024.
Update your scripts to use Az PowerShell modules by 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
We'll retire AzureRM PowerShell modules on 29 February 2024.
We’re retiring Classic Application Insights on 29 February 2024
Target retirement date: February 29, 2024
Transition to workspace-based Application Insights.
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