Azure Retirement Calendar

📅 March 2026 (23 items)

Retirement: Azure Diagnostic Extensions set to Retire in 18 months

Retirement: Confidential Containers preview on AKS is Closing Down

Update: The retirement date for default outbound access has been extended to March 31, 2026.

Retirement: Remove dependency on these preview features before March 31, 2026

Retirement: Azure Database Migration Service (classic) - SQL Server scenarios deprecation

Retirement: Support for Service Connector (preview) on Azure Container Apps will end on March 30th, 2026

Container insights recommended alerts (custom metrics) (preview) will be retired on 14 March 2026

Retirement Announcement: Assigning alert trigger playbooks within Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules

AKS will stop support for Windows Server 2019 on March 1 2026

Transition to built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Recovery Services vaults in Azure Backup by 31 March 2026

Retirement: Migrate to dedicated VM for your compute clusters

Classic experience to protect VMware machines using Azure Site Recovery will be retired on 30 March 2026

Transition to Azure AD to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by 31 March 2026

Retirement: Azure Storage Data Movement Library (v2) Announcement

Retirement: Azure App Service on Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes

Retirement: Azure Intelligent Recommendation Service to Be Retired

Retirement: Log Analytics Beta API to Be Retired on March 31, 2026

Retirement: Microsoft Fabric Runtime 1.2

Retirement: Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.4

Retirement: Microsoft Playwright Testing (Preview) will be retired on March 8, 2026

Retirement: Azure Kubernetes Service on VMware will be retired on March 16, 2026 - Replace with Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Local

Action Required: Transition to DCR-based KQL transformations by 31 March 2026 

Azure unmanaged disks will be retired on 31 March 2026 (formerly 30 September 2025)

📅 April 2026 (8 items)

Cognitive Services Custom Commands feature is being retired on April 30, 2026

Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026– Transition to Application Gateway V2

Batch custom image pools using VHD or managed images will be retired on 31 March 2026

Retirement: Support for Node.js 20 ends on April 30, 2026 – upgrade your apps to Node.js 22

Retirement: Extended Support for Node 20 LTS Ends on April 30, 2026

Batch Service in select regions will be retired on 31 March 2026

Select Batch Pool autoscale service-defined variables will be retired on 31 March 2024

Azure Batch classic compute node communication model will be retired on 31 March 2026

📅 May 2026 (1 items)

Retirement: Support for .NET 9 (STS) ends on May 12, 2026

📅 June 2026 (4 items)

Retirement: Older versions of EA Azure Price Sheet – Download by Billing Account API

Retirement: DCsv2-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on June 30, 2026

Retirement: Remove dependency on these Azure ML SDKs before June 30, 2026

Retirement: Azure Machine Learning SDK v1 Will Be Retired on March 31, 2025 – Transition to Machine Learning SDK v2

📅 July 2026 (2 items)

Retirement: MICROSOFT AZURE OPERATED BY 21VIANET - Action required to migrate to Azure China North 3 region by July 1, 2026 due to China North 1 and China East 1 region retirement

Retirement: Azure HDInsight – Enterprise Security Package

📅 August 2026 (5 items)

Retirement: Microsoft Sentinel Deprecation in Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet Announcement

Retirement: Microsoft Defender for Cloud Deprecation in Microsoft Azure Operated by 21Vianet Announcement

Retirement: Azure AI Document Intelligence v2.0 API will be retired on 31 August 2026

Migrate to Azure AI Document Intelligence v3.1 GA version

Azure Maps Web SDK Map Controls Version 1.xx will be retired on 19 September 2026 – transition to Azure Maps Web SDK Map Controls Version 3.xx

📅 September 2026 (24 items)

Azure API for FHIR retiring on 30 September 2026

Azure Monitor Data Collection API Retirement 

Transition to using standard tests for single-step availability testing in Azure Monitor application insights by 30 September 2026

Retirement: VpnGw1-5 (Non-AZ SKUs) will be retired on Sep 30, 2026 – gateways will be automatically migrated to AZ SKUs

SMART on FHIR proxy feature in Azure Health Data Services will be retired on 21st September 2026 - Transition to SMART on FHIR (Enhanced).

Azure Maps Gen1 Price Tier will be retired on 15 September 2026 -- transition to Azure Maps Gen2 Price Tier 

Retirement: Azure Network Policy Manager (NPM) for Windows nodes on AKS to Be Retired by September 30, 2026

Retirement: NVv3-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on September 30 ,2026

Retirement: Azure Monitor SCOM Managed Instance will be retired on Sep 30, 2026

Retirement: Upgrade BlobFuse v1 to latest version of Blobfuse v2

Retirement: NVv4-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on September 30, 2026

Support for the 1.x version of Azure Functions ends 14 September 2026

Retirement: Azure Machine Learning - Data labeling Deprecation

Computer Vision v1.0, v2.0, v2.1, v3.0, and v3.1 APIs will be retired on 13 September 2026

Azure Virtual Desktop (classic) will be retired on 30 September 2026 - Please transition to Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure Maps Web SDK Map Control version 2.0.x and Azure Maps Service Module will be retired on 30 September 2026

We’re ending support for the 2017-03-01-GA API.

Action required: Migrate to using ARG query for “Get Alert Summary” in Azure Monitor

Migrate to Azure Resource Manager control plane API version 2021-11-01 by 30 September 2026

Transition to the ContainerLogV2 table by 30 September 2026

Azure Activity Logs Legacy solution is replaced by Diagnostic settings

Some Azure Service Bus SDK libraries will be retired on 30 September 2026—migrate to the latest SDKs

Azure Monitor for AKS-Engine will not be supported on 14 September 2026

Azure Maps Render V1 APIs will be retired on 17 September 2026 – transition to Azure Maps Render V2 APIs 

📅 October 2026 (9 items)

AI Services Personalizer will be retired on 1 October 2026

Retirement: Support for Python 3.10 ends on October 1st, 2026

Azure AI Translator S2-S4 billing instances will be retired on 1 October 2026 – transition to Commitment Tiers for discounted pricing.

AI Services Anomaly Detector will be retired on 1 October 2026

AI Services Metrics Advisor will be retired on 1 October 2026

Retirement: General Purpose v1 (GPv1) and legacy blob storage accounts

Retirement: Deprecation of Custom Resource Providers

Retirement: Azure SQL Database FSV2-Series Offer

Retirement: Azure Databricks Standard tier will retire by October 2026

📅 November 2026 (1 items)

Retirement: Support for the in-process model for .NET apps in Azure Functions ends 10 November 2026.

📅 January 2027 (2 items)

Announcing Azure FXT Edge Filer Retirement

HPC Pack 2016 will be retired on 12 January 2027

📅 March 2027 (14 items)

Community support for Standard_M192is_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Community support for Standard_M192ims_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Support for Standard_M192idms_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027

Community support for Standard_M192ids_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Azure Content Moderator will be retired on 15 March 2027

Retirement: Docker Compose Feature for Azure App Service to Be Retired on March 31, 2027 – Replaced by Sidecars in Azure App Service

Retirement: Cloud Services (Extended Support) to Be Retired on March 31, 2027

Retirement notice: Windows Server 2022 will retire with k8s 1.34 in March 2027

Begin using Azure Monitor–based dashboards in Azure API Management before the built-in analytics dashboards are retired on 15 March 2027

Support of Azure Notification Hubs’ Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by July 2024.

Retirement: Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise is retiring on March 30, 2027

Retirement: Azure VPN Gateway support for SSTP Protocol will be retired on March 31, 2027

Retirement: Support for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall v2 Configuration is ending

Azure Front Door (classic) will be retired on 31 March 2027

📅 April 2027 (1 items)

We're retiring Memory Optimized Data Flows in Azure Data Factory - use General Purpose for better performance at a lower price.

📅 September 2027 (12 items)

Retirement: Open Service Mesh extension for Arc-enabled Kubernetes will be retired on September 30, 2027

Retirement: Retirement of Classic Alerts for Azure Site Recovery

Retirement: End of Support Announcement for Azure Load Balancer numberOfProbes property on September 1, 2027.

Retirement: Open Service Mesh add-on for AKS will be retired on September 30, 2027

Retirement: Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) will be retired on September 30th, 2027

Retirement: Azure Sphere is retiring Legacy service interfaces on September 27th, 2027

Retirement: Azure Load Balancer Inbound NAT rule V1 for Azure VMs and Azure VMSS will be retired

Retirement: Network security group flow logs in Azure Network Watcher will be retired

Retirement: Azure AI Document Intelligence GA API v2.1 is retiring on 15 September 2027

Retirement: Planned Service Retirement - Azure Automation State Configuration on September 30, 2027

Retirement: Azure Automange Best Practices Migrating to Azure Policy

Retirement: SQL Data Sync will be retired on September 30th, 2027

📅 October 2027 (1 items)

Retirement: Azure Stream Analytics PowerBI output connector

📅 March 2028 (11 items)

Retirement: Azure Maps Traffic APIs Version 1.0 to Be Retired on March 31, 2028

Retirement: Azure Spring Apps to Be Retired on March 31, 2028

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

Retirement: Support for Desired State Configuration Extension for Azure Virtual Machines to Be Retired on March 31, 2028

Retirement: Azure Functions – Durable Functions support for Netherite will end on March 31, 2028

Retirement: Log Analytics Batch API to Be Retired on March 31, 2028

Retirement: Docker Content Trust on March 31, 2028 – Replaced by the Notary Project and Azure Key Vault

Retirement: Azure App Service Will No Longer Support Linked Databases as a Part of Custom Backups After March 31, 2028

Retirement: Azure Maps Route APIs Version 1.0 to Be Retired on March 31, 2028

Retirement: Prepare for the Retirement of Manually Registered Azure VPN Clients on March 31, 2028

Retirement: Kubenet Networking for Azure Kubernetes Service to Be Retired on March 31, 2028

📅 May 2028 (1 items)

Retirement: D, Ds, Dv2, Dsv2, and Ls Series Virtual Machines to Be Retired on May 1, 2028

📅 June 2028 (2 items)

Retirement: VM Insights Map and Dependency Agent are being on June 30, 2028

Azure VMware Solution AV36 Node Retirement on June 30, 2028

📅 July 2028 (1 items)

Retirement: Azure Dedicated HSM

📅 September 2028 (7 items)

Retirement: Azure Custom Vision will be retired on September 25, 2028

Retirement: Azure Cache for Redis is retiring on September 30, 2028

Retirement: Operating System (OS) Disks on Standard HDD will be retired on 08 September 2028

Retirement: Azure Disk Encryption

Retirement: Entity Linking from Azure AI Language

Retirement: Azure Network Policy Manager (NPM) for Linux nodes on AKS to Be Retired by September 30, 2028

Retirement: Azure Computer Vision – Image Analysis will be retired on September 25, 2028

📅 October 2028 (1 items)

Retirement: The F, Fs, Fsv2, Lsv2, G, Gs, Av2, Amv2, and B series VMs are retiring in 2028

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