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

Sep 26 Update

Retirement: Information regarding the end of support for the "Microsoft Translator [DEPRECATED]" connector
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.

Retirement: Open Service Mesh extension for Arc-enabled Kubernetes will be retired on September 30, 2027
RETIREMENT
Plan out your migration for Open Service Mesh (OSM) to Istio.

Retirement: Azure Maps Spatial APIs V1 & 2022-08-01 will be retired on September 30th, 2025.
RETIREMENT
Azure Maps support for Azure Maps Spatial APIs V1 & 2022-08-01 will be retired on September 30th 2025

Public Preview: Azure Functions .NET 9 support in Linux plans
IN PREVIEW
Azure Functions now supports .NET 9 preview 7, using the isolated worker model.

Retirement: Deprecation of Virtual Network Injection for Azure Data Explorer
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

Public Preview: Introducing Reporting and Microsoft Entra ID Authentication for Microsoft Playwright Testing
IN PREVIEW
We are excited to announce the public preview of Reporting and Microsoft Entra ID authentication for Microsoft Playwright Testing.

Public Preview: Virtual machines node pools support in AKS
IN PREVIEW
You can now have multiple VM SKU in a node pool in AKS.

Retirement: Open Service Mesh add-on for AKS will be retired on September 30, 2027
RETIREMENT
Plan out your migration from Open Service Mesh (OSM) to Istio add-on for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

Generally Available: Long-term support for version 1.27 and 1.30 in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now enable long-term support (LTS) for Kubernetes version 1.30.

Retirement: AKS GPU image (preview) will retire on Jan 10, 2025
RETIREMENT
Effective January 10, 2025, Azure Kubernetes Service will no longer support or provide updates to the GPU image.

Generally Available: FIPS mutability support in AKS
NOW AVAILABLE
You can now enable or disable FIPS on an existing Linux node pool in AKS.

Generally Available: Extended support: PHP 8.1 on App Service
NOW AVAILABLE
PHP 8.1 support is extending on App Service.

Retirement: Extended support for Python 3.9 ends October 2025 – upgrade your apps to Python 3.10
RETIREMENT
Support for Python 3.9 ends October 2025 upgrade apps to Python 3.10

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

Retirement: Azure Machine Learning data drift detection will retire on September 1st, 2025
RETIREMENT
Start using the Azure Machine Learning model monitoring instead of the Azure Machine Learning data drift detection before September 1st, 2025.

Generally Available: Azure Cosmos DB dynamic scaling—per region and per partition autoscale
NOW AVAILABLE
Optimize costs using the new dynamic scaling enhancement to autoscale for nonuniform workloads.

Generally Available: Azure confidential VMs with NVIDIA Tensor Core GPUs
NOW AVAILABLE
VMs based on AMD 4th Gen EPYCTM processors with SEV-SNP technology paired with NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs.

Public Preview: New FX series VMs - FXmsv2 and FXmdsv2
IN PREVIEW
The FXmsv2 and FXmdsv2 series are newest additions to the FX subfamily of VMs.

Retirement: Azure Load Balancer Inbound NAT rule V1 for Azure VMs and Azure VMSS will be retired
RETIREMENT
Migrate to Azure Load Balancer Inbound NAT rule V2 by September 30, 2027.

Retirement: Azure Front Door support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will end by Dec 1st, 2024
RETIREMENT
The TLS versions 1.2 and later offer improved security with features such as perfect forward secrecy and stronger cipher suites.

Retirement: Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) will be retired on September 30th, 2027
RETIREMENT
Migrate to Azure Front Door Standard or Premium to avoid service disruptions.

Retirement: Azure Application Gateway support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will end by 31 August 2025
RETIREMENT
The TLS versions 1.2 and later offer improved security with features such as perfect forward secrecy and stronger cipher suites.

Generally Available: gRPC and frontend mTLS now available for Application Gateway for Containers
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.

Retirement: Intent Recognition an Azure AI Speech feature will be retired on September 30th, 2025
RETIREMENT
Intent Recognition an Azure AI Speech feature will be retired on September 30th, 2025.

Retirement: Network security group flow logs in Azure Network Watcher will be retired
RETIREMENT
Network security group flow logs in Azure Network Watcher will be retired on September 30th, 2027.

Retirement: Azure AI Speaker Recognition
RETIREMENT
Azure AI Speaker Recognition will be retired on September 30, 2025.

Retirement: Retirement of Classic Alerts for Azure Site Recovery
RETIREMENT
Classic Alerts for Azure Site Recovery is on a retirement journey. Migrate to an improved solution using Azure Monitor by Sept 23 2027.

Retirement: Conversation Transcription Multi Channel Diarization
RETIREMENT
Conversation Transcription Service provided speaker diarization with multichannel audio will be retired on March 28th ,2025.

Retirement: VpnGw1-5 (Non-AZ SKUs) will be retired on Sep 30, 2026 – gateways will be automatically migrated to AZ SKUs
RETIREMENT
Retirement notice: VPN Gateway Non-Availability Zone SKU (VpnGw 1-5)

Retirement: Transition from Helm Repositories to OCI Artifacts for Storing Helm Charts
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.

Retirement: Azure Automange Best Practices Migrating to Azure Policy
RETIREMENT
Azure Product Retirement: Azure Automanage Best Practices on 09/30/2027. Replace with Azure Policy.

Generally Available: V5 reservations for Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
NOW AVAILABLE
Save up to 65% on V5 compute resources by using reserved capacity pricing.

Generally Available: Smaller Enterprise tier cache instance for Azure Cache for Redis
NOW AVAILABLE
Take advantage of a lower cost option for your Redis workloads.

Generally Available: Online migration from Azure Database for PostgreSQL - Single Server to Flexible Server
NOW AVAILABLE
Experience seamless online migration with minimal application downtime.

Generally Available: Latest PostgreSQL minor versions supported by Azure Database for PostgreSQL – Flexible Server
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.