---
slug: "azure-spring-apps-retirement"
title: "Azure Spring Apps retirement"
summary: "Retirement date for the Azure Spring Apps Basic, Standard and Enterprise plans: 31 Mar 2028. After that date the service is not supported and instances are no longer accessible."
cloud: "azure"
service: "Azure Spring Apps"
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category: "service"
type: "retirement"
announced_date: "2024-10-03"
effective_date: "2028-03-31"
effective_precision: "day"
replacement: "Azure Container Apps"
affected_versions: []
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# Azure Spring Apps retirement

Retirement date for the Azure Spring Apps Basic, Standard and Enterprise plans: 31 Mar 2028. After that date the service is not supported and instances are no longer accessible.

- Effective date: 31 Mar 2028
- Cloud: [Azure](https://eolwatch.dev/cloud/azure.md)
- Service: [Azure Spring Apps](https://eolwatch.dev/services/azure/spring-apps.md)
- Type: Retirement
- Category: [Service](https://eolwatch.dev/categories/services.md)
- Replacement: Azure Container Apps
- Announced: 3 Oct 2024
- Official source: [azure.microsoft.com](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=azure-spring-apps-will-be-retired-on-march-31-2028)
- Last checked: 12 Nov 2026

## What breaks

The Azure Spring Apps Basic, Standard and Enterprise plans retire on 31 Mar 2028, at the end of a 3-year sunset period. New customers have not been able to sign up for these plans since March 31, 2025, and existing customers remain operational until the retirement date. After the retirement date of each plan, instances are no longer accessible. The Standard consumption and dedicated plan (preview) had an earlier retirement date of March 31, 2025.

## Who is affected

### Matching resource types

- `microsoft.appplatform/spring`
- `azurerm_spring_cloud_service`

### Detected by the estate check from

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

## What to do

1. Move workloads running on Azure Spring Apps to Azure Container Apps, the primary migration target Microsoft recommends, by 31 Mar 2028 for the Basic, Standard and Enterprise plans.
2. If you use Spring Commercial support or a Tanzu component as part of Azure Spring Apps Enterprise, switch to Tanzu Platform Spring Essentials on Azure Container Apps.
3. Review the [retirement guide](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2289911) for migration solutions and the transition guide.

## Replacement

Azure Container Apps

## Sources

- [Official source](https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=azure-spring-apps-will-be-retired-on-march-31-2028) (azure.microsoft.com, Official)

Last checked against this source on 12 Nov 2026.

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