A8 – A11 Azure Virtual Machine sizes will be retired on March 1, 2021

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A8 – A11 Azure Virtual Machine sizes will be retired on March 1, 2021

Deadline: March 1, 2021 Impacted Services: Azure VMs and depending services More information:

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/a8-a11-azure-virtual-machine-sizes-will-be-retired-on-march-1-2021/
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/blog/resize-virtual-machines/

Notice

As we continue to bring more modern and optimized virtual machine instances to Azure, on the latest innovations in datacenter hardware, so to must we thoughtfully plan how we retire aging hardware. With this in mind, we are retiring our A8 – A11 Azure Virtual Machine sizes on March 1, 2021.

Impact

Starting today, customers with existing A8 – A11 size virtual machines will be able to deploy more of the same size, but new customers will no longer be able to create A8 – A11 VMs.

After March 1, 2021, any remaining A8 – A11 size virtual machines remaining in your subscription will be set to a deallocated state. These virtual machines will be stopped and removed from the host. These virtual machines will no longer be billed in the deallocated state.

Required Action

Before March 1, 2021, you will need to resize your A8 – A11 virtual machines. We recommend moving your high performance computing (HPC) workloads to another HPC Virtual Machine size.

More information

This is a change from our previous announcement of an October 2020 retirement date.

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