{
  "slug": "azure-automanage-best-practices-retirement",
  "title": "Azure Automanage: Best Practices retirement",
  "summary": "Retirement date for Azure Automanage Best Practices: Sep 2027. Microsoft encourages customers to transition to Azure Policy before the retirement date.",
  "cloud": "azure",
  "service": "Azure Automanage",
  "service_slug": "automanage",
  "category": "feature",
  "type": "retirement",
  "announced_date": "2024-09-26",
  "effective_date": "2027-09-01",
  "effective_precision": "month",
  "impact": "The retirement affects virtual machines managed with Azure Automanage Best Practices. Microsoft describes it as automatically onboarding VMs to services like Azure Monitor, Backup and Microsoft Defender and correcting configuration drift. Microsoft states that all Automanage Best Practices features are available in Azure Policy. Automanage Best Practices is cost-free, but paid services enabled through Automanage may incur usage charges billed directly by those services.",
  "migration_path": "Transition to Azure Policy before the retirement date. Microsoft links further details under [Learn more](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2287112).",
  "replacement": "Azure Policy",
  "affected_versions": [],
  "source_url": "https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=azure-automanage-best-practices-retirement-migrate-to-azure-policy",
  "extra_source_urls": [
    "https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/azure-automanage/"
  ],
  "vendor_ref": "azure-automanage-best-practices-retirement-migrate-to-azure-policy",
  "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",
  "url": "https://eolwatch.dev/items/azure-automanage-best-practices-retirement",
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  "markdown_url": "https://eolwatch.dev/items/azure-automanage-best-practices-retirement.md",
  "json_url": "https://eolwatch.dev/items/azure-automanage-best-practices-retirement.json",
  "estate_check": null,
  "source_note": null
}