Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028
Microsoft will stop accepting reservations for 17 Azure virtual machine (VM) types, with 13 set to be retired in 2028. The affected VMs are based on older Intel CPU generations such as Haswell, Skylake, and Cascade Lake. Customers are advised to migrate to newer, more efficient instance types.
- ▪Microsoft will stop taking one-year reservations for 13 Azure VM types starting July 1, 2026.
- ▪The 13 VM types — including Av2, Dv2, and Gs — will be fully retired in May and November 2028.
- ▪Four additional VM types — Dv3, Dsv3, Ev3, and Esv3 — will no longer accept one- or three-year reservations but will remain available beyond 2028.
- ▪The retiring VMs are based on Intel's Haswell, Skylake, and Cascade Lake processors from the 2010s.
- ▪Microsoft recommends migrating to newer Azure instance types, which offer better performance and energy efficiency.
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Off-Prem 1 Microsoft to stop taking reservations for 17 Azure VM flavours, kill 13 in 2028 1 Haswell’s had its day and Skylake and Cascade Lake are draining away Simon Sharwood Tue 5 May 2026 // 04:53 UTC Microsoft will stop offering long-term rentals for 17 Azure instance types – most of them powered by CPUs Intel released in the 2010s – again showing that cloud computing isn’t always a seamless and easy choice. The fun starts on July 1st when Microsoft will stop taking orders for one-year reservations for 13 instance types – Av2, Amv2, Bv1, D, Ds, Dv2, Dsv2, F, Fs, Fsv2, G, Gs, Ls, Lsv2 – meaning it won’t be possible to book a server for a year. Microsoft will retire these instance types in May and November 2028.
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