Azure customers run mission-critical workloads on our platform and need to architect their applications in a way that will deliver reliability and transparency. Our goal is to provide transparency in all aspects of Azure delivery mentioned in the previous blog post from Mark Russinovich.
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of the Service Retirement workbook, which provides a single centralized resource level view of service retirements that may require customer action to mitigate. This will help customers assess impact, evaluate options, and plan for migration off of retiring services and features, available at any time. Currently, service retirements are communicated via direct email to subscription owners and admins, through Azure portal notifications in the Service Health blade, and published publicly in Azure Updates. These current communications channels do not support a comprehensive list of active service retirements that impact customer subscriptions at the resource level.
In the dynamic world of cloud computing, having a unified view of all service retirements holds paramount importance for organizations. While disruptive, there is an understanding that product sunsetting is part of the evolution of the Cloud. In this blog post, we will explore why it is crucial to have a unified view of service retirements and how it benefits organizations in planning and managing their cloud environments effectively.
What is the Service Retirement Workbook?
The Service Retirement workbook is available through the Azure Advisor workbooks gallery, catering to users of Azure's Public, China, and Government cloud instances and requires no additional set up for use.
This feature encompasses a comprehensive list of 35 services and features announced for retirement, offering a centralized user-friendly interface that simplifies the process of understanding and addressing the impact of service retirements. Customers can leverage this workbook to effortlessly view planned retirement dates, identify impacted resources, and obtain the necessary information to make well-informed decisions.
Service retirement information is crucial for any organizations for the following:
Understand impact of planned retirements: How to get started
You can now get an overview of planned service retirements and prepare for migration using Service Retirement workbook. Here is how to get started:
You will be presented with a list and a map of service retirements that impact your resources. For each of the services there is a planned retirement date, number of impacted resources and migration instructions including recommended alternative service.
Our strategy to transparent service retirement notifications
We are determined to deliver a diverse set of experiences that help our customers discover active Azure service and feature retirements so no customer misses out on important updates and is able to take action no matter how they manage their Azure resources. We will continue to provide direct email communications, notifications in the Azure portal via Azure Service Health blade, and public announcements via Azure Updates.
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