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We will be posting weekly updates here, every Thursday.
Critical updates and retirements may also be communicated via emails and service health alerts.
For additional product retirement information, please reference the Lifecycle Learn search page.
October 2024
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
Oct 03
RETIREMENT
Plan out your migration from Azure Spring Apps to Azure Container Apps.
Oct 03
RETIREMENT
Start using the Azure Monitor Agent instead of the Azure Diagnostics Agent before March 31st, 2026.
Oct 03
NOW AVAILABLE
As we continue to enhance your experience with Azure Monitor, we want to remind you about an important update of Log search alerts V2 non common scheme e-mail templates.
Oct 03
RETIREMENT
Azure Sphere (Legacy) service interfaces will be retired on September 27th, 2027 – plan your migration to Azure Sphere (Integrated).
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
Take advantage of Azure Business Continuity (ABC) Center, a streamlined, centralized management center that simplifies backup and disaster recovery across various environments (Azure, Hybrid) and solutions (Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery).
Oct 03
NOW AVAILABLE
Save an additional 15% discount on 1-year Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instance rates for the latest Linux VMs. Offer valid from October 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
Announcing the preview of the new Azure Virtual Network Manager feature, enhancing your network management capability.
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
The NVads V710 v5-series virtual machines are powered by AMD Radeon Pro V710 GPUs and AMD EPYC 9374 F (Genoa) CPUs, providing five VM sizes from 1/6 to a full V710 GPU with NVMe support for ephemeral local storage. These VMs are ideal for demanding GPU-accelerated graphics applications, cloud-based virtual desktops, high-quality gaming experiences, and small to medium AI/ML inference workloads.
Oct 03
IN PREVIEW
The Azure NMads MA35D-Series virtual machines (VM) are now in public preview in the East US region, offering specialized hardware for optimized video transcoding workloads. This VM series provides higher throughput, lower latency, and access to modern codecs like AV1, making it an ideal choice for video transcoding on the cloud.
Oct 03
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Backup for SAP HANA Database Delivers More Value at Lower TCO with Reduced Protected Instance Fees starting Sept 1st, 2024
Oct 03
RETIREMENT
Important Notice: Support for SQL Data Sync service will be retired on September 30th,2027.
Oct 03
RETIREMENT
Azure Orbital Ground Station (AOGS) will be retired on December 16th, 2024. This includes 1st party antenna support and 3rd party partner network scheduling capabilities.
Oct 03
RETIREMENT
Support for NCv3-series VM family will be retired for Azure Batch pools on September 30th, 2025.
Oct 03
RETIREMENT
This article contains important information about required actions related to the retirement of Azure Automation State Configuration on September 30, 2027.
September 2024
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
The Microsoft Translator connector and its underlying API have been deprecated and will be disabled on Power Platform starting October 30, 2024. To avoid disruptions, transition to the Microsoft Translator V2 connector and Azure Text to Speech connector for the respective actions.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Plan out your migration for Open Service Mesh (OSM) to Istio.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Azure Maps support for Azure Maps Spatial APIs V1 & 2022-08-01 will be retired on September 30th 2025
Sep 26
IN PREVIEW
Azure Functions now supports .NET 9 preview 7, using the isolated worker model.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
The Virtual Network Injection feature for Azure Data Explorer is being deprecated due to its limitations and challenges. Customers are advised to migrate to a private endpoint-based network security architecture by February 1, 2025, to avoid any disruption
Sep 26
IN PREVIEW
We are excited to announce the public preview of Reporting and Microsoft Entra ID authentication for Microsoft Playwright Testing.
Sep 26
IN PREVIEW
You can now have multiple VM SKU in a node pool in AKS.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Plan out your migration from Open Service Mesh (OSM) to Istio add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Sep 26
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now enable long-term support (LTS) for Kubernetes version 1.30.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Effective January 10, 2025, Azure Kubernetes Service will no longer support or provide updates to the GPU image.
Sep 26
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now enable or disable FIPS on an existing Linux node pool in AKS.
Sep 26
NOW AVAILABLE
PHP 8.1 support is extending on App Service.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Support for Python 3.9 ends October 2025 upgrade apps to Python 3.10
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Support for PHP 8.2 ends December 31st, 2026, upgrade apps to PHP 8.3
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Start using the Azure Machine Learning model monitoring instead of the Azure Machine Learning data drift detection before September 1st, 2025.
Sep 26
NOW AVAILABLE
Optimize costs using the new dynamic scaling enhancement to autoscale for nonuniform workloads.
Sep 26
NOW AVAILABLE
VMs based on AMD 4th Gen EPYCTM processors with SEV-SNP technology paired with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs.
Sep 26
IN PREVIEW
The FXmsv2 and FXmdsv2 series are newest additions to the FX subfamily of VMs.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Migrate to Azure Load Balancer Inbound NAT rule V2 by September 30, 2027.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
The TLS versions 1.2 and later offer improved security with features such as perfect forward secrecy and stronger cipher suites.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Migrate to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium to avoid service disruptions.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
The TLS versions 1.2 and later offer improved security with features such as perfect forward secrecy and stronger cipher suites.
Sep 26
NOW AVAILABLE
Application Gateway for Containers now supports gRPC and frontend mutual authentication. With both frontend and backend mutual authentication, end-to-end mutual authentication is now possible.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Intent Recognition an Azure AI Speech feature will be retired on September 30th, 2025.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Network security group flow logs in Azure Network Watcher will be retired on September 30th, 2027.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Azure AI Speaker Recognition will be retired on September 30, 2025.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Classic Alerts for Azure Site Recovery is on a retirement journey. Migrate to an improved solution using Azure Monitor by Sept 23 2027.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Conversation Transcription Service provided speaker diarization with multichannel audio will be retired on March 28th ,2025.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Retirement notice: VPN Gateway Non-Availability Zone SKU (VpnGw 1-5)
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Helm v2 reached end of life status in November 2020. Therefore, Azure Container Registry will end support for Helm v2 and Helm repositories on March 30th, 2025. Please transition to Helm v3 and store your Helm Charts as OCI Artifacts.
Sep 26
RETIREMENT
Azure Product Retirement: Azure Automanage Best Practices on 09/30/2027. Replace with Azure Policy.
Sep 26
NOW AVAILABLE
Save up to 65% on V5 compute resources by using reserved capacity pricing.
Sep 26
NOW AVAILABLE
Take advantage of a lower cost option for your Redis workloads.
Sep 26
NOW AVAILABLE
Experience seamless online migration with minimal application downtime.
Sep 26
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server now supports minor versions 16.4, 15.8, 14.13, 13.16, 12.20, and 17 Beta 3.
Sep 19
RETIREMENT
This post contains information about pre-retirement actions related to the retirement of Microsoft Purview Data Sharing.
Sep 19
NOW AVAILABLE
Access-based enumeration and non-browsable shares for SMB and dual-protocol volumes in Azure NetApp Files is now generally available
Sep 19
NOW AVAILABLE
Cost savings and improved financial predictability with Azure NetApp Files Reserved Capacity
Sep 19
RETIREMENT
Azure Maps support for Creator Services APIs V2 & 2023-03-01-preview will be retired on September 30, 2025
Sep 19
NOW AVAILABLE
Customers will now be able to detach the ZRS data disks and attach them to another VM, decreasing the RTO.
Sep 19
IN PREVIEW
Microsoft’s Azure container Networking team is announcing availability of FQDN filtering and HA DNS proxy within Advanced Container Networking Services on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). These new features provide a robust and secure solution for managing network traffic in containerized environments.
Sep 19
RETIREMENT
Azure Remote Rendering will be retired on September 30th, 2025. Please plan to stop usage and delete your Remote Rendering account by September 30th, 2025.
Sep 19
RETIREMENT
SQL Insights (preview) will be retired on December 31, 2024.
Sep 19
IN PREVIEW
We are excited to announce a new way of exporting platform metrics from Azure Monitor. This powerful addition allows customers to export metrics for their Azure resources on a large scale, with full fidelity and low latency, along with the ability to select particular metrics while configuring exports.
Sep 19
NOW AVAILABLE
Automated Patching retirement and replacement with Azure Update Manager.
Sep 19
RETIREMENT
Support for PowerShell 7.2 on Azure Functions is ending soon. Your apps that are hosted on Azure Functions will continue to run, but security updates will no longer be available, and we’ll no longer provide customer service for PowerShell 7.2. Learn more about Azure Functions stack version support.
Sep 19
NOW AVAILABLE
General Availability of Azure Data Box 80 TB at Azure China
Sep 19
RETIREMENT
Azure SQL Edge will be retired on September 30, 2025. Upon retirement, workloads deployed to existing SQL Edge modules and containers will continue to run as-is; there will be no additional support provided for SQL Edge and no further updates will be published. We encourage you to consider migrating to an alternative solution prior to the retirement date to ensure a smooth transition to a fully supported product.
Sep 19
RETIREMENT
Microsoft Genomics Service will be retired on January 6, 2025
Sep 19
RETIREMENT
Azure Maps support for Azure Maps Data Registry APIs V 2023-06-01 will be retired on September 30th, 2025
Sep 19
NOW AVAILABLE
This update also provides improvement and bug fixes.
Sep 19
RETIREMENT
Azure AI Vision Image Analysis 4.0 Custom Image Classification, Custom Object Detection, Product Recognition and Segment (Background Removal) Preview APIs and Spatial Analysis Edge container to be retired.
Sep 19
RETIREMENT
Azure Managed Azure Managed Confidential Consortium Framework Preview support is ending soon. Please migrate any resources to Azure Confidential Ledger.
Sep 12
RETIREMENT
The Azure PostgreSQL migration extension in Azure Data Studio is being retired to focus on more advanced and supported migration services within the Azure Database for PostgreSQL portal and CLI. This change ensures customers have access to up-to-date features for their migration needs.
Sep 12
NOW AVAILABLE
Experience a new way to run Java applications on Azure Container Apps.
Sep 12
IN PREVIEW
We are thrilled to introduce the Public Preview of built-in actions for document parsing and chunking in Logic Apps Standard, designed to streamline RAG-based ingestion for Generative AI applications. With these out-of-the-box operations, you can now easily ingest documents or files, including both structured and unstructured data, into AI Search without writing or managing any code!
Sep 12
IN PREVIEW
Azure Site Recovery support for Azure Trusted Launch VMs (Linux OS) is now available for private preview.
Sep 12
IN PREVIEW
Azure Firewall enhances the Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) rule configuration to support port translation on its Private IP address.
Sep 12
RETIREMENT
Azure AI Document Intelligence GA AI v2.1 will be retiring soon. Please migrate to newer API version to continue operation.
Sep 12
IN PREVIEW
Seamlessly deliver content over low-bandwidth, high latency, or unreliable networks.
Sep 12
IN PREVIEW
This feature is the ability to increase your Premium SSD v2 and Ultra disk storage capacity without stopping your VM.
Sep 12
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now take advantage of PowerShell 7.4 capabilities with your Functions apps.
Sep 12
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure SQL Database Hyperscale elastic pools are now generally available.
Sep 12
NOW AVAILABLE
IoT Edge now supports Ubuntu Server 24.04, Debian 12, and Yocto Scarthgap.
Sep 05
RETIREMENT
This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure App Service Environment v1/v2 on August 31, 2024.
Sep 05
NOW AVAILABLE
Auto-renewal of certificates for on-premises to Azure Site Recovery.
Sep 05
IN PREVIEW
We are excited to announce new enhancements to our GenAI Gateway capabilities, specifically designed for large language model (LLM) use cases. Building on our initial release in May 2024, we are introducing new policies to support a wider range of LLMs via the Azure AI Model Inference API. These new policies offer the same robust functionality as our initial offerings but are now compatible with a broader array of models available in Azure AI Studio.
Sep 05
IN PREVIEW
Learn more about the Public Preview announcement of Azure Container Storage enabled by Azure Arc Edge Volumes.
Sep 05
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Storage Mover with WAN link bandwidth management schedules is now generally available.
Sep 05
NOW AVAILABLE
We are excited to announce that customers can now choose between Replace, Reimage (New), or Restart (New) as the default repair action performed in response to an "Unhealthy" application signal.
Sep 05
IN PREVIEW
We're excited to announce the Public Preview of Templates Support in Azure Logic Apps Standard, providing pre-built workflow solutions to streamline and accelerate integration projects. This new feature allows developers to quickly set up, customize, and deploy workflows, simplifying the process of building and managing applications.
Sep 05
IN PREVIEW
We’re excited to introduce Insights support for Azure Logic Apps Standard, offering curated visualizations to help you monitor your applications and workflows more effectively. With these new dashboards, you gain a comprehensive view of your Logic Apps Standard environments, enabling better oversight of your integration scenarios.
Sep 05
IN PREVIEW
Entra ID support for SSH connections is now supported in the portal experience for a quicker, more secure, one click experience.
Sep 05
RETIREMENT
This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure API Management stv1 on August 31, 2024.
Sep 05
RETIREMENT
This article contains important information about required actions and post-retirement activities related to the retirement of Azure Logic Apps Integration Service Environment (ISE) on August 31, 2024.
Sep 05
NOW AVAILABLE
Azure Public IPs are now zone redundant by default in 12 regions.
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