Azure Media Services Video Analyzer is retiring on September 14th, 2023

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Azure Media Services Video Analyzer is retiring on September 14th, 2023

Deprecation ID: 8f07bc4c-fc6e-460f-80eb-24dc1ca7a09e Deadline: Sep 14, 2023 Impacted Services:

• Azure Media Services

More information:

• Announcement
• Azure Media Services v3 presets and Azure Video Indexer Comparison

Notice

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

As Microsoft’s Responsible AI Standards outline, Microsoft is committed to fairness, privacy, security, and transparency with respect to AI systems. To better align our products to this new Standard and the Limited Access policy for other Microsoft products, Azure Media Services will be retiring the following capabilities on September 14, 2023:

• Video Analyzer preset

After September 14, 2023, any applications you have developed using the Azure Media Services Video Analyzer preset will begin experiencing errors or failed job submissions.

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Oct 07, 2022	Deprecation was announced
Deprecation	Sep 14, 2023	Jobs will begin experiencing errors or failed job submissions.

Impact

Azure Media Services Video Analyzer is retiring on September 14th, 2023 and migration to Azure Video Indexer is required.

Required Action

A comparison between Azure Media Services v3 presets and Azure Video Indexer is provided here.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

If you are currently using the Video Analyzer preset, we recommend updating your applications to use the Video Indexer APIs for video analysis, which offers an extended range of capabilities.

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Contact Azure support (link).
• Get answers from Microsoft Q&A (link).

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