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2026 (12)

May (1)

azure: Retirement: Azure Reserved Virtual Machines Instances for select VM series

Azure Updates

2026-05-05

Azure will retire certain Reserved VM Instance options for select VM series starting July 1, 2026. One-year purchases and renewals will stop for listed series, and the notice also indicates broader retirement of one-year and three-year reserved instance offerings for those series.

April (10)

azure: Retirement: Prompt Flow in Azure ML and Foundry

Azure Updates

2026-04-27

Prompt Flow in Microsoft Foundry and Azure Machine Learning will be retired on April 20, 2027 and replaced by Microsoft Agent Framework. The notice says the replacement is a single orchestration platform with new capabilities, but the provided excerpt does not include migration details.

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

Azure Updates

2026-04-17

Azure will enforce the retirement of Azure Functions runtime v3 for Linux Consumption–based Function Apps. The runtime was already retired on December 13, 2022, and affected apps will stop running on September 30, 2026.

azure: Retirement: Azure Kubernetes Service support for Ubuntu 22.04

Azure Updates

2026-04-16

Azure Kubernetes Service will retire support for Ubuntu 22.04 on June 30, 2027. Users should migrate to Ubuntu 24.04 or later before that date to avoid service disruption.

azure: Retirement: End of lift reminder of HBv2/HC-Series/NP-Series Azure Virtual Machine in Azure Batch Pool

Azure Updates

2026-04-15

Azure Batch will retire support for HBv2-series, HC-series, and NP-series VMs in Batch pools on May 31, 2027. The notice applies to these VM sizes only when used in Azure Batch pools.

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

Azure Updates

2026-04-13

Azure Managed Grafana Essential SKU will retire on March 30, 2027. Customers are advised to move to Azure Managed Grafana Standard SKU or Azure Monitor Dashboards with Grafana before that date to avoid service disruption.

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

Azure Updates

2026-04-02

Python apps hosted on Azure App Service on Windows and Azure Functions on Windows will be retired on March 31, 2027. After that date, app configuration and content remain, but the apps will stop running.

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

Azure Updates

2026-04-02

AzureDnsZone endpoints (preview) for Azure Blob storage accounts will be retired in March 2027. Microsoft advises moving all new and existing blob storage account deployments to Standard endpoints.

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

Azure Updates

2026-04-01

Service Fabric support for clusters running on Windows Server 2022 ends on March 31, 2027. Customers need to move to Windows Server 2025 before then to stay supported.

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

Azure Updates

2026-04-01

Service Fabric support for clusters running on Windows Server 2019 ends on March 31, 2027. Customers need to upgrade to Windows Server 2025 by then to stay supported.

azure: Retirement: Select Azure AI Language Features

Azure Updates

2026-04-01

Microsoft will retire eight Azure AI Language features on March 20, 2027. The notice lists Key Phrase Extraction, Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining, Custom Text Classification, Conversational Language Understanding (CLU), Custom Question Answering (CQA), and other related language features.

March (1)

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

Azure Updates

2026-03-31

Azure Machine Learning is retiring the Preview features for importing data from external sources and using external Data Connections. These features will stop being available after September 30, 2026.