Azure Retirement Calendar

📅 July 2026 (4 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

Retirement: Azure Reserved Virtual Machines Instances for select VM seriesNEW

Retirement: "Send data to Event Hubs & Storage (Preview)" retiring July 31, 2026

📅 August 2026 (6 items)

Retirement: Azure VPN Client for Linux (Preview) will be retired on August 31, 2026 NEW

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

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

Retirement: Microsoft Sentinel 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

📅 September 2026 (29 items)

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

Retirement: End of life reminder of NVv3 and NVv4-series Azure virtual machine in Azure Batch pools NEW

Retirement: External Data Import & Data Connections in Azure Machine Learning will be retired on September 30, 2026 NEW

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Retirement: Azure Functions runtime v3 on Linux Consumption will stop running September 30, 2026NEW

Transition to the ContainerLogV2 table by 30 September 2026

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

Azure Activity Logs Legacy solution is replaced by Diagnostic settings

Azure Monitor Data Collection API Retirement 

Migrate to Azure Resource Manager control plane API version 2021-11-01 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

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

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

Retirement: Azure Machine Learning - Data labeling Deprecation

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

Retirement: Legacy Authentication in Azure Monitor - Container Insights will be retired on September 30, 2026.

Azure API for FHIR retiring on 30 September 2026

Retirement: Transition to Entra ID (formerly known as Azure AD) to query data from Azure Monitor application insights by September 30, 2026NEW

📅 October 2026 (11 items)

Retirement: GPv1 and Legacy Blob storage account creationNEW

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

Retirement: Azure SQL Database FSV2-Series Offer

AI Services Personalizer will be retired on 1 October 2026

AI Services Anomaly Detector will be retired on 1 October 2026

Retirement: Windows Server 2022 on Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc

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

Retirement: Deprecation of Custom Resource Providers

Retirement: Support for Python 3.10 ends on October 1, 2026 – upgrade your Azure Functions apps to Python 3.13

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

Retirement: Azure Databricks Standard tier will retire by October 2026

📅 November 2026 (4 items)

Retirement: Support for .NET 9 (STS) ends on November 10, 2026

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

Retirement: Support for .NET 8 (LTS) ends on November 10, 2026—upgrade your apps to .NET 10 (LTS) NEW

Retirement: Managed NGINX Ingress with Application Routing Add-on Retiring November 2026

📅 December 2026 (1 items)

Retirement: Extended support for PHP 8.2 ends December 31st, 2026 – upgrade apps to PHP 8.3

📅 January 2027 (3 items)

Announcing Azure FXT Edge Filer Retirement

HPC Pack 2016 will be retired on 12 January 2027

Retirement: Support for Windows Server 2016 Marketplace images on Azure Batch pools will end on January 12, 2027NEW

📅 March 2027 (23 items)

Community support for Standard_M192ims_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

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

Retirement: Azure SQL Elastic query - Shard_Map_Manager modeNEW

Retirement: Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise is retiring on March 30, 2027 and new creation requests will be blocked starting April 1, 2026

Retirement: Service Fabric support for Windows Server 2019 ends on March 31, 2027 - upgrade to Windows Server 2025NEW

Retirement: Deprecation of sidecar for remote-write for Azure Monitor managed service for PrometheusNEW

Retirement: Emissions Impact Dashboard for AzureNEW

Retirement: Azure Managed Grafana Essential SKU will retire on March 30, 2027NEW

Retirement: Python support for Azure App Service and Azure Functions on Windows will be retired on March 31, 2027 NEW

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

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

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

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

Community support for Standard_M192is_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

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

Support for Standard_M192idms_v2 will be retired on 31 March 2027

Community support for Standard_M192ids_v2 is ending on 31 March 2027

Retirement: Service Fabric support for Windows Server 2022 ends on March 31, 2027 - upgrade to Windows Server 2025NEW

Retirement: Ubuntu 20.04 Node Pools in AKS

Azure Content Moderator will be retired on 15 March 2027

Retirement: AzureDnsEndpoints for Azure storage accounts will be retired March 2027NEW

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

📅 April 2027 (2 items)

Retirement: Prompt Flow in Azure ML and FoundryNEW

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

📅 May 2027 (5 items)

Retirement: NP-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on May 31, 2027 NEW

Retirement: HBv2-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on May 31, 2027NEW

Retirement: End of life reminder of HBv2/HC-Series/NP-Series Azure Virtual Machine in Azure Batch PoolNEW

Retirement: TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and Azure Logic AppsNEW

Retirement: HC-series Azure Virtual Machines will be retired on May 31, 2027NEW

📅 June 2027 (1 items)

Retirement: Azure Kubernetes Service support for Ubuntu 22.04 NEW

📅 September 2027 (14 items)

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

Retirement: Azure VMware Solution AV36 node End of Support on September 30, 2027NEW

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

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

Retirement: Azure Load Balancer Inbound NAT rule version 1 for Azure VMSS (aka Inbound NAT Pools)NEW

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

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

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

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

Retirement: Azure Automange Best Practices Migrating to Azure Policy

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

Retirement: Retirement of Classic Alerts for Azure Site Recovery

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

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

📅 October 2027 (1 items)

Retirement: Azure Stream Analytics PowerBI output connector

📅 March 2028 (12 items)

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

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

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

Retirement: Announcing the 3-Year Retirement of Current Architecture for AKS on Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022

Retirement: Azure Maps Traffic APIs Version 1.0 to 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: Docker Content Trust on March 31, 2028 – Replaced by the Notary Project and Azure Key Vault

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

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

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

📅 May 2028 (2 items)

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

Retirement: D-series, Ds-series, Dv2-series, Dsv2-series, and Ls-series Virtual Machines for Azure Batch poolsNEW

📅 June 2028 (2 items)

Retirement: Azure VMware Solution AV36 Node Retirement on June 30, 2028

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

📅 July 2028 (1 items)

Retirement: Azure Dedicated HSM

📅 September 2028 (9 items)

Retirement: Entity Linking from Azure AI Language

Retirement: The Linux Consumption hosting plan of Azure Functions will be retired on September 30, 2028. Migrate to Flex Consumption.

Retirement: Azure Disk Encryption

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

Retirement: hsmPlatform 1 Keys in Azure Key Vault

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

Retirement: Azure Cache for Redis is retiring on September 30, 2028 and new creation will be blocked for existing customers starting October 1, 2026

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

📅 November 2028 (1 items)

Retirement: Av2-series, F-series, Fs-series, Fsv2-series, G-series, Gs-series, and Lsv2-series Virtual Machines for Azure Batch poolsNEW

📅 March 2029 (5 items)

Retirement: Azure Document Intelligence v3.0 API will be retired on March 30, 2029NEW

Retirement: Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB NoSQLNEW

Retirement: Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL will retire on March 31, 2029NEW

Retirement: Manually registered Azure VPN Clients for Azure Government and Microsoft Azure operated by 21Vianet clouds will be retired on March 31, 2029NEW

Retirement: Select Azure AI Language Features NEW

📅 June 2029 (1 items)

Retirement: Azure VMware Solution AV36P and AV52 node retirement on June 30, 2029NEW

📅 July 2031 (1 items)

Retirement: Azure Sphere will be retired on July 31, 2031NEW

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