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Azure QnA Maker is retiring on March 31st 2025 #233

Open azure-deprecation-automation opened 2 years ago

azure-deprecation-automation commented 2 years ago

Azure QnA Maker is retiring on March 31st 2025

Deadline: Mar 31, 2025 Impacted Services:

More information:

Notice

Migration to custom question answering in Azure Cognitive Service for Language is required.

After October 1st 2022, customers will not able to create new QnA Maker resources or knowledge bases.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

On 31 March 2025, QnA Maker will be retired. Before that date, you’ll need to migrate your QnA Maker knowledge bases to custom question answering, a feature of Azure Cognitive Service for Language. Custom question answering provides all the capabilities of QnA Maker, plus enhancements such as:

  • Improved relevance ranking.
  • Availability across 31 regions.
  • The ability to add and query unstructured content from documents and public URLs.

Beginning 1 October 2022, you won’t be able to create new QnA Maker resources or knowledge bases. All QnA Maker resources and knowledge bases created before that date will be supported until 31 March 2025.

Timeline

Phase Date Description
Announcement Mar 21, 2022 Deprecation was announced
Creation Disabled Oct 01, 2022 Customers will not able to create new QnA Maker resources or knowledge bases
Deprecation Mar 31, 2025 Azure QnA Maker will no longer be available

Impact

Azure QnA Maker is retiring on March 31st 2025 and customers need to migrate to custom question answering in Azure Cognitive Service for Language.

Required Action

A migration guide is available here.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

To avoid disruptions to your applications that use QnA Maker, first review pricing for the custom question answering feature of Cognitive Service for Language. Then, before 31 March 2025:

  • Create a Cognitive Service for Language resource.
  • Follow the steps to migrate your knowledge bases from QnA Maker to custom question answering.
  • If you use the QnA Maker SDK or REST APIs to query your knowledge base, review the documentation to learn how to call the custom question answering APIs and make the appropriate code changes.

Contact

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azure-deprecation-automation commented 2 years ago

This issue is automatically managed and suggest to use GitHub Discussions to discuss this deprecation.