Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 will be retired on 29 February 2024

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Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 will be retired on 29 February 2024

Deadline: Feb 29, 2024 Impacted Services:

• Azure Data Lake Storage

More information:

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/action-required-switch-to-azure-data-lake-storage-gen2-by-29-february-2024/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/data-lake-storage-migrate-gen1-to-gen2
• https://azurestorage.com/docs/analytics/adls-gen1-to-gen2-migration/

Notice

This report was communicated to customers through email.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is integrated with newer analytics offerings such as Azure Synapse Analytics along with Azure HDInsight and Azure Databricks. In addition, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 offers a rich set of capabilities for your analytics needs such as :

• Lower cost
• Tiered storage
• High availability and disaster recovery

With this new experience, we're retiring Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 on 29 February 2024

They continued with the following:

After 29 February 2024, you will not be able to:

• Create or manage Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 1 accounts
• Access the data through the Azure portal or the Azure Data Lake store
• Access the APIs/SDKs/client tools
• Receive service updates to Azure Data Lake Store Gen1 or APIs/SDKs/client tools or access customer support (phone, email, web)

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Feb 25, 2021	Deprecation was announced
Creation Blocked	July 5, 2021	Account creation will be blocked for new customers
Portal Migration Tool	July 14, 2021	Data can now be migrated through the Azure Portal (docs)
Deprecation	Feb 29, 2024	You will no longer be able to create & manage Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 accounts nor access the data stored on them

Impact

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 will be retired on 29 February 2024 and customers have to migrate to Gen2.

Required Action

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

To avoid service disruption, migrate your data lake from Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 by 29 February 2024.

Review the following resources to learn more about the migration:

• Migrate your data lake from Gen1 to Gen2
• Migration Samples

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Contact Azure support (link).
• Get answers from Microsoft Q&A (link).
• Contact the product group through email (email).

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[tomkerkhove]

Account creation will be blocked as of July 5, 2021 (announcement)

[tomkerkhove]

Microsoft has announced a portal tool to migrate from Gen 1 to Gen 2 accounts (announcement | docs)