Cloud retirements, end of support dates and breaking changes in the Features category from Nov 2026 to Oct 2028

Due this month, Nov 2026Nov 2026 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

managed NGINX ingress (Application Routing) retirement

AzureAzure Kubernetes ServiceRetirement

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Due in 6 days, 19 Nov 202619 Nov 2026

gemini-3.6-flash retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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Due in 12 days, 25 Nov 202625 Nov 2026

discovery stops without a designated project

GCPCloud Number RegistryBreaking change

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Due in 30 days, 13 Dec 202613 Dec 2026

gemini-live-2.5-flash-native-audio retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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In 76 days, 28 Jan 202728 Jan 2027

gemini-3.7-flash retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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In 79 days, 31 Jan 202731 Jan 2027

Data Transfer Service Shopify connector field support removal

GCPBigQueryBreaking change

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In 80 days, 1 Feb 20271 Feb 2027

Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) shutdown

GCPSecurity Command CenterRetirement

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In about 4 months, Mar 2027Mar 2027 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

AzureDnsZone endpoints (preview) retirement

AzureAzure Blob StorageRetirement

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In about 4 months, 15 Mar 202715 Mar 2027

built-in analytics dashboards retirement

AzureAzure API ManagementRetirement

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In about 4 months, 15 Mar 202715 Mar 2027

WAF v2 Configuration retirement

AzureAzure Application GatewayRetirement

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In about 4 months, 15 Mar 202715 Mar 2027

gemini-2.5-flash-image retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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In about 5 months, 30 Mar 202730 Mar 2027

Essential SKU retirement

AzureAzure Managed GrafanaRetirement

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In about 5 months, 31 Mar 202731 Mar 2027

Docker Compose feature retirement

AzureAzure App ServiceRetirement

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In about 5 months, 31 Mar 202731 Mar 2027

sidecar for Prometheus remote-write retirement

AzureAzure MonitorRetirement

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In about 5 months, 31 Mar 202731 Mar 2027

Elastic query Shard_Map_Manager mode end of support

AzureAzure SQL DatabaseEnd of support

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In about 5 months, 31 Mar 202731 Mar 2027

SSTP protocol support retirement

AzureAzure VPN GatewayRetirement

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In about 5 months, 1 Apr 20271 Apr 2027

Memory Optimized Data Flows retirement

AzureAzure Data FactoryRetirement

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In about 5 months, 1 Apr 20271 Apr 2027

multimodalembedding@001 retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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In about 5 months, 1 Apr 20271 Apr 2027

text-embedding-004 retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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In about 5 months, 1 Apr 20271 Apr 2027

text-embedding-005 retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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In about 5 months, 1 Apr 20271 Apr 2027

text-multilingual-embedding-002 retirement

GCPGemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRetirement

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In about 5 months, 20 Apr 202720 Apr 2027

Azure Machine Learning and Microsoft Foundry: Prompt Flow retirement

AzureAzure Machine LearningRetirement

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In about 7 months, 31 May 202731 May 2027

Azure App Service, Functions and Logic Apps: TLS 1.0 and 1.1 retirement

AzureAzure App ServiceRetirement

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In about 7 months, 16 Jun 202716 Jun 2027

customer-supplied encryption keys (CSEKs) shutdown

GCPCompute EngineRetirement

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In about 9 months, 1 Aug 20271 Aug 2027

NVIDIA P4 GPU shutdown

GCPCompute EngineRetirement

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In about 9 months, 1 Aug 20271 Aug 2027

NVIDIA T4 GPU shutdown

GCPCompute EngineRetirement

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In about 10 months, 30 Aug 202730 Aug 2027

license-included service retirement

AzureAzure VMware SolutionRetirement

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In about 10 months, Sep 2027Sep 2027 approx. The vendor gives a month, not a day.

Best Practices retirement

AzureAzure AutomanageRetirement

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In about 10 months, 1 Sep 20271 Sep 2027

numberOfProbes property end of support

AzureAzure Load BalancerEnd of support

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In about 10 months, 23 Sep 202723 Sep 2027

Classic Alerts retirement

AzureAzure Site RecoveryRetirement

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In about 11 months, 29 Sep 202729 Sep 2027

Functions on Azure Container Apps V1 retirement

AzureAzure Container AppsRetirement

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In about 11 months, 30 Sep 202730 Sep 2027

State Configuration retirement

AzureAzure AutomationRetirement

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In about 11 months, 30 Sep 202730 Sep 2027

Azure CDN Standard from Microsoft (classic) retirement

AzureAzure Content Delivery NetworkRetirement

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In about 11 months, 30 Sep 202730 Sep 2027

Open Service Mesh add-on retirement

AzureAzure Kubernetes ServiceRetirement

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In about 11 months, 30 Sep 202730 Sep 2027

pod name dimension on pod metrics retirement

AzureAzure Kubernetes ServiceRetirement

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In about 11 months, 30 Sep 202730 Sep 2027

Inbound NAT pools retirement

AzureAzure Load BalancerRetirement

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In about 11 months, 30 Sep 202730 Sep 2027

NSG flow logs retirement

AzureAzure Network WatcherRetirement

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In about 11 months, 30 Sep 202730 Sep 2027

SQL Data Sync retirement

AzureAzure SQL DatabaseRetirement

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In about 12 months, 31 Oct 202731 Oct 2027

Always Encrypted with Intel SGX enclaves retirement

AzureAzure SQL DatabaseRetirement

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In about 12 months, 31 Oct 202731 Oct 2027

Power BI output connector retirement

AzureAzure Stream AnalyticsRetirement

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In about 16 months, 27 Mar 202827 Mar 2028

AKS on Windows Server 2019 and 2022 current architecture retirement

AzureAzure ArcRetirement

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In about 17 months, 31 Mar 202831 Mar 2028

linked databases in custom backups retirement

AzureAzure App ServiceRetirement

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In about 17 months, 31 Mar 202831 Mar 2028

Docker Content Trust retirement

AzureAzure Container RegistryRetirement

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In about 17 months, 31 Mar 202831 Mar 2028

Durable Functions Netherite backend end of support

AzureAzure FunctionsEnd of support

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In about 17 months, 31 Mar 202831 Mar 2028

kubenet networking retirement

AzureAzure Kubernetes ServiceRetirement

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In about 17 months, 31 Mar 202831 Mar 2028

manually registered Azure VPN clients retirement

AzureAzure VPN GatewayRetirement

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In about 2 years, 30 Jun 202830 Jun 2028

VM Insights Map and Dependency Agent retirement

AzureAzure MonitorRetirement

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In about 2 years, 8 Sep 20288 Sep 2028

Entity Linking retirement

AzureAzure AI LanguageRetirement

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In about 2 years, 8 Sep 20288 Sep 2028

OS disks on Standard HDD retirement

AzureAzure Disk StorageRetirement

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In about 2 years, 15 Sep 202815 Sep 2028

support for hsmPlatform 1 keys retirement

AzureAzure Key VaultRetirement

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