AzureRetirement
Azure Machine Learning: external data import and data connections retirement
Import data from external sources (Preview) and external Data Connections (Preview) in Azure Machine Learning are not available after 30 Sep 2026. Existing connections are not available, and imported assets stay available but scheduled refreshes stop working.
Retired , 30 Sep 2026
What breaks
After 30 Sep 2026, Import data from external sources (Preview), S3, Snowflake, Azure SQL Db and external Data Connections (Preview) in Azure Machine Learning are no longer available. Existing external data connections are not available. New data imports and new external data connections cannot be created. Pre-existing imported assets continue to be available, but any scheduled refresh no longer works.
What to do
Microsoft recommends migrating external data imports to Microsoft Fabric and using AzureML datastores to make the data available in AzureML.
Replacement
Microsoft Fabric with Azure Machine Learning datastores
Sources
- Official sourceazure.microsoft.comOfficial
- Additional sourcelearn.microsoft.comOfficial
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