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What’s shutting down in September 2026
14 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
API →6 days
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 →9 days
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 →12 days
Microsoft Azure Automation ends support for the Python 2.7, Python 3.8, PowerShell 7.1, and PowerShell 7.2 runbook runtime versions
API →12 days
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 →12 days
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 →12 days