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What’s shutting down in August 2027

3 things are scheduled to be taken away in August 2027. Closest first — each links to the vendor’s own announcement.

Other →42 weeks

Microsoft Microsoft is retiring every version of Microsoft HPC Pack, its on-premises HPC cluster and job-scheduling software; End of Support is 27 August 2027, after which there are no updates, security fixes, or technical support, and customers are directed to Azure Batch or another Azure service for parallel and HPC scheduling

SaaS →43 weeks

Microsoft Azure Azure VMware Solution (AVS) retires its license-included offering — the pay-as-you-go (PayGo) license-included SKUs on 15 October 2026 and all remaining license-included services (including Reserved Instance SKUs and the AV36 SKU) on 30 August 2027 — forcing customers onto the AVS VCF bring-your-own-license (BYOL) model with portable Broadcom VMware Cloud Foundation licenses

SaaS →43 weeks

Instant Instant, the open-source realtime database and backend-as-a-service, is winding down its hosted Instant Cloud after the team joins OpenAI — new signups are closed and all cloud apps shut down on 31 August 2027, with self-hosting the migration path