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Azure Storage Accounts: GPv1 and legacy blob storage account retirement

General purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts, legacy blob storage accounts and Files accounts hosted on GPv1 are retired on 13 Oct 2026. After that date, remaining GPv1 accounts are migrated to GPv2 automatically.

Retired 13 Oct 2026Ended 31 days ago, 13 Oct 2026

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What breaks

All General purpose v1 (GPv1) storage accounts are retired, in all redundancy options, together with legacy blob storage accounts and Files storage accounts hosted on GPv1. Creation of new accounts is blocked from September 1st, 2026. After the retirement date, all existing GPv1 accounts are automatically migrated to a GPv2 account, which may result in higher billing costs. Microsoft treats a decision not to migrate an existing GPv1 account as consent to migrate the account on the customer's behalf.

Who is affected

Affected versions

GPv1

Matching resource types

microsoft.storage/storageaccounts
azurerm_storage_account

Fields the check reads

kind
account_kind

Detected by the estate check from

Azure Resource Graph export (CSV or JSON)
Terraform state or plan (JSON)
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What to do

Choose a target account type for each affected account: General Purpose v2 (GPv2), or a specialized alternative such as BlockBlobStorage or FileStorage, depending on workload requirements.
Upgrade the account with the storage account upgrade guide.
For GPv1 accounts, read the GPv1 storage account retirement overview.
For legacy blob storage accounts, read the Legacy Blob Storage account retirement overview.

Replacement

General Purpose v2 (GPv2) storage accounts

Sources

Official sourceazure.microsoft.comOfficial
Additional sourcelearn.microsoft.comOfficial
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Last checked against the first source in this list on 12 Nov 2026.

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Last checked 12 Nov 2026 · Added 13 Nov 2026 · Changelog for this item