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Cloud Services (extended support) fully retiredAzure · 31 Mar 2027
Cloud Services (extended support), which has been deprecated since March 2025, is fully retired. Migrate workloads to Virtual Machine Scale Sets, App Service or AKS.
In short: this takes effect on 31 Mar 2027. That's 146 days from when this page was built.
Time left
Countdown to 31 Mar 2027 (UTC).
What to do
- Read the official notice: Microsoft source ↗.
- Add every Microsoft deadline to your calendar: subscribe to the deadlines calendar.
Other upcoming Azure deadlines
- 10 Nov 2026 Azure Functions in-process model support ends
- 10 Nov 2026 Azure IoT Edge 1.5 LTS end of servicing
- 31 Jan 2027 Azure Blueprints retires
- 31 Mar 2027 Azure Cache for Redis Enterprise tiers retire
- 31 Mar 2027 Azure Front Door (classic) retires
- 31 Mar 2027 Application Gateway WAF v2 configuration retires
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