AzureRetirement

Azure Virtual Machines: NP-series retirement

Retirement date for NP-series Azure Virtual Machines: 31 May 2027. After that date, remaining NP-series VMs are set to a deallocated state and stop working.

Retires 31 May 2027In about 7 months, 31 May 2027

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What breaks

The retirement covers the sizes Standard_NP10s, Standard_NP20s and Standard_NP40s. After the retirement date, remaining NP-series VMs are set to a deallocated state, stop working and no longer incur billing charges. After the retirement date, NP-series is no longer under SLA and no longer has support included. Purchases of 1-year and 3-year reserved instances ended on April 2, 2026.

Who is affected

Affected versions

Standard_NP10s
Standard_NP20s
Standard_NP40s

Matching resource types

microsoft.compute/virtualmachines
microsoft.compute/virtualmachinescalesets
azurerm_linux_virtual_machine
azurerm_windows_virtual_machine
azurerm_virtual_machine
azurerm_linux_virtual_machine_scale_set
azurerm_windows_virtual_machine_scale_set
azurerm_orchestrated_virtual_machine_scale_set
azurerm_kubernetes_cluster
azurerm_kubernetes_cluster_node_pool

Fields the check reads

vmsize
sku
size
vm_size
sku_name
default_node_pool.vm_size

Detected by the estate check from

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

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What to do

Resize or deallocate your NP-series VMs.
Change your VM sizes to a product that meets your workload requirements.
Microsoft recommends one of these Azure GPU VM families, based on workload needs: NDv2 VMs, NCads_H100_v5 or NCasT4_v3.

Replacement

NDv2, NCads_H100_v5 or NCasT4_v3 VMs

Sources

Official sourceazure.microsoft.comOfficial
Additional sourcelearn.microsoft.comOfficial
Additional sourcelearn.microsoft.comOfficial
Additional sourcelearn.microsoft.comOfficial

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