---
slug: "azure-ai-personalizer-retirement"
title: "Azure AI Personalizer retirement"
summary: "Retirement date for AI Services Personalizer: 25 Aug 2026. Existing resources can be used until that date. After it, the service is not supported and can no longer be used with applications."
cloud: "azure"
service: "Azure AI Personalizer"
service_slug: "ai-personalizer"
category: "service"
type: "retirement"
announced_date: "2023-09-29"
effective_date: "2026-08-25"
effective_precision: "day"
replacement: null
affected_versions: []
source_url: "https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=ai-services-personalizer-will-be-retired-on-1-october-2026"
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vendor_ref: "ai-services-personalizer-will-be-retired-on-1-october-2026"
last_checked_at: "2026-11-12T09:55:19.345Z"
created_at: "2026-11-13T13:36:44.208Z"
updated_at: "2026-11-13T13:36:44.208Z"
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# Azure AI Personalizer retirement

Retirement date for AI Services Personalizer: 25 Aug 2026. Existing resources can be used until that date. After it, the service is not supported and can no longer be used with applications.

- Effective date: 25 Aug 2026
- Cloud: [Azure](https://eolwatch.dev/cloud/azure.md)
- Service: [Azure AI Personalizer](https://eolwatch.dev/services/azure/ai-personalizer.md)
- Type: Retirement
- Category: [Service](https://eolwatch.dev/categories/services.md)
- Replacement: Not stated by vendor
- Announced: 29 Sep 2023
- Official source: [azure.microsoft.com](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=ai-services-personalizer-will-be-retired-on-1-october-2026)
- Last checked: 12 Nov 2026

## What breaks

AI Services Personalizer is retired on the retirement date. Existing AI Services Personalizer resources can be used until the retirement date. After the retirement date, AI Services Personalizer is not supported and can no longer be used with applications.

## Who is affected

### Matching resource types

- `microsoft.cognitiveservices/accounts`
- `azurerm_cognitive_account`

### Fields the check reads

- `kind`

### Detected by the estate check from

- Azure Resource Graph export (CSV or JSON)
- Terraform state or plan (JSON)
- ARM template

## What to do

Microsoft has not published migration steps. See the source for details.

## Replacement

Not stated by vendor.

## Sources

- [Official source](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=ai-services-personalizer-will-be-retired-on-1-october-2026) (azure.microsoft.com, Official)

Last checked against this source on 12 Nov 2026.

Page: https://eolwatch.dev/items/azure-ai-personalizer-retirement | JSON: https://eolwatch.dev/items/azure-ai-personalizer-retirement.json

The text on this page is drafted with AI assistance from the vendor's text, checked against the official source and approved by a person before it is published.