May 16, 2023

Switch to Azure AD authentication for application insights by 30 September 2025

API keys used to stream live metrics telemetry into application insights will be retired on 30 September 2025.
May 13, 2023

We’re retiring Speech-to-text REST preview API v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023

We recently made the Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 generally available. With this release, we’ll retire the preview version v3.1-preview.1 on May 12, 2023.
May 6, 2023

Retirement of SQL Server Native Client (SNAC) OLE DB provider for linked servers in Azure SQL Managed Instance

All existing linked server objects configured to use SQLNCLI will automatically switch to using the fully compatible third (current) generation of provider – known as Microsoft OLE […]
April 29, 2023

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

Application Gateway V1 will be retired on 28 April 2026
April 22, 2023

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

Custom Commands voice commanding solution will be retired on 30 April 2026.
April 22, 2023

Support has ended for Gen 4 hardware on Azure SQL Database

Gen 4 hardware on Azure SQL Database is no longer supported, effective March 31, 2023. Databases may remain on Gen 4 configurations, albeit with limitations.
April 22, 2023

App Service Environment version 1 and version 2 will be retired on 31 August 2024

Migrate to App Service Environment v3 by 31 August 2024.
April 15, 2023

Retirement notice: transition to the Authentication methods policy for Azure Active Directory

The ability to manage authentication methods in the legacy MFA and SSPR policies will be retired on 30 September 2024.
April 1, 2023

The “managed” IoT Edge solution on Azure stack Edge will be retired on March 31, 2024. Transition your IoT Edge workloads to an IoT Edge solution running on a Linux VM on Azure Stack Edge.

The “managed” IoT Edge solution on Azure Stack Edge will be retired on 31 March 2024
April 1, 2023

Action recommended: Implement disaster recovery strategies for your Azure App Service web apps by 31 March 2025

We’ll no longer place apps in disaster recovery mode in the event of a regional disaster.
April 1, 2023

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

Custom fields feature will be retired on 31 March 2026
April 1, 2023

Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server will be retired—migrate to Flexible Server by 28 March 2025

On 28 March 2025, Azure Database for PostgreSQL Single Server will be retired, and you’ll need to migrate to Azure Database for PostgreSQL Flexible Server by […]