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RETIREMENT

Retirement: Azure Spring Apps will be retired on March 31, 2028

Published date: Oct 03, 2024

Azure Spring Apps is a fully managed service for running Java Spring applications, jointly built by Microsoft and VMware by Broadcom. After careful consideration and analysis, Microsoft and Broadcom have made the difficult decision to retire the Azure Spring Apps service. Azure Spring Apps, including Standard consumption and dedicated, Basic, Standard and Enterprise plans, will be retired, through a two-phased retirement plan: 

  • On September 30, 2024, Standard consumption and dedicated plan (preview) will enter a 6-month sunset period and will be retired on March 31, 2025.
  • In mid-March 2025, all other Azure Spring Apps plans including Basic, Standard and Enterprise plans will enter a 3-year sunset period and will be retired on March 31, 2028.

To ensure you maintain a high performance and achieve scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency for your business, we recommend Azure Container Apps as the primary service for your migration of workloads running on Azure Spring Apps. Azure Container Apps is a fully managed serverless container service for polyglot apps and offers enhanced Java features to help you manage, monitor and troubleshoot Java apps at scale.

If you are currently leveraging Spring Commercial support or Tanzu component as part of Azure Spring Apps Enterprise, you will need to switch to leveraging Tanzu Platform Spring Essentials on Azure Container Apps.

Review the retirement guide for more details about Azure Spring Apps migration guide.

For Azure Spring Apps Standard consumption and dedicated plan, new customers will no longer be able to sign up for the service after Sep 30, 2024, while existing customers will remain operational until these plans are retired on March 31, 2025.

For Azure Spring Apps Basic, Standard, and Enterprise plans, new customers will no longer be able to sign up for the service after March 31, 2025; existing customers will remain operational until the plans are phased out on March 31, 2028.

After the respective retirement date of each plan, Azure Spring Apps won’t be supported, and your Azure Spring Apps instances will no longer be accessible after that date. Review the retirement guide for more details.

Required action

We are committed to supporting you and your customers with migration tools, expert resources, and technical support through this transition. 

To avoid any service disruptions, we recommend you transition to Azure Container Apps by March 31, 2025, if you are using the Standard consumption and dedicated plan, and by March 31, 2028, if you are using the Basic, Standard, or Enterprise plans.

To learn more about migration solutions and transition guide, please review this retirement guide.

Help and Support

If you have any questions, you can open a support ticket through the Azure portal for technical help: create a support request.