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What’s shutting down in September 2026

18 things are scheduled to be taken away in September 2026. Closest first — each links to the vendor’s own announcement.

SaaS ↙gone

Microsoft Azure Azure is retiring the nested confidential cc_v5 virtual machine series on 1 September 2026. After that date the cc_v5 series is no longer available for use or purchase, and any affected VM that has not been resized before the cutoff will be deallocated. The impacted VM sizes are DCas_cc_v5, DCads_cc_v5, ECas_cc_v5, and ECads_cc_v5.

SaaS ↙gone

Gen (SurfEasy) SurfEasy VPN reaches end of life on 1 September 2026. After that date the SurfEasy apps and services stop working entirely — you cannot access your account, download, activate, connect, or use the app. SurfEasy's owner, Gen (the Norton / Cyber Safety brands family), is retiring it as part of a "portfolio simplification strategy" and is offering eligible SurfEasy Legacy and Annual customers Norton VPN at no extra cost, with a product key delivered by email.

Feature ↙gone

GitHub GitHub deprecated six models — Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Raptor Mini — across most GitHub Copilot experiences

Library ↙gone

OpenSSL OpenSSL 3.0, the current long-term-support branch, stops receiving fixes

Feature ↙gone

GitHub GitHub removes the MAI-Code-1-Flash model from all GitHub Copilot experiences and directs users to its successor, MAI-Code-1.1-Flash

Feature ↙gone

Microsoft Microsoft retires the containerized data connector agent for the Microsoft Sentinel solution for SAP applications; the SAP agentless data connector is the replacement

SaaS ↙gone

Relay.app The Relay.app workflow-automation service closes, on two dates: free accounts first, paid accounts a month later

API ↙gone

Microsoft Microsoft retires the Azure Maps Render v1 REST API — after 17 September 2026 calls to the Render v1 endpoints stop working and must move to Render v2

SaaS ↙gone

Google Google Cloud Translation Hub, the self-service portal for translating large volumes of documents into many languages, was deprecated on 30 June 2025 and shut down on 20 September 2026; the underlying document-translation capability lives on in the Cloud Translation API (Advanced / v3), which Translation Hub users must move to

SaaS ↙gone

Notion Notion Mail, the AI email client Notion launched in April 2025 on the technology from its Skiff acquisition, is being retired; the inbox closes across web, desktop, and iOS and Notion-Mail-only data is deleted unless exported first

API ↙gone

OpenAI OpenAI is removing its Sora 2 video-generation models and the Videos API from the platform — sora-2, sora-2-pro and their dated snapshots stop responding, with no direct replacement named

API ↙gone

Cloudflare The legacy Cloudflare Registrar domain-management API paths (/accounts/{account_id}/registrar/domains) stop working; automation that manages Cloudflare-registered domains must move to the new Registrar API

Runtime ↙gone

Microsoft Azure Automation ends support for the Python 2.7, Python 3.8, PowerShell 7.1, and PowerShell 7.2 runbook runtime versions

API ↙gone

Amazon Web Services Amazon will permanently close Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) — the crowdsourcing marketplace and MTurk API for Human Intelligence Tasks — on 30 September 2026, and the same closure ends SageMaker Ground Truth and Amazon Augmented AI (A2I) human-review workflows

API ↙gone

Cloudflare Cloudflare retires Service Key API authentication; requests using the X-Auth-User-Service-Key header stop being accepted and callers must move to Cloudflare API Tokens

Feature ↙gone

JetBrains The JetBrains Teacher Pack for Bootcamps — the program that gave bootcamp instructors free JetBrains IDE access and issued student coupons — is being retired; 30 September 2026 is the final application day and no new applications are accepted from 1 October 2026

SaaS ↙gone

Microsoft Microsoft retired the Azure NVv3-series GPU virtual machines (Standard_NV12s_v3, NV12hs_v3, NV24s_v3, NV24ms_v3, NV32ms_v3, NV48s_v3) on 30 September 2026; any remaining NVv3 VMs are set to a deallocated state, stop working, lose SLA and support. Azure UAE North customers have an extension to 31 January 2027.

SaaS ↙gone

Microsoft Microsoft retired the Azure NVv4-series GPU virtual machines (Standard_NV4as_v4, NV4ahs_v4, NV8as_v4, NV8ahs_v4, NV16as_v4, NV16ahs_v4, NV32as_v4, NV32ahs_v4) on 30 September 2026; any remaining NVv4 VMs are set to a deallocated state, stop working, and lose SLA and support.

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