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Everything shutting down in 2027
23 things are scheduled to be taken away across 2027 — API sunsets, service shutdowns, deprecations, and end-of-life dates from 12 vendors. Closest first; each links to the vendor’s own announcement.
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Feature →8 weeks
Google Gmail is discontinuing three features for third-party (non-Google) email accounts on the web — "Send as" (sending from a non-Google address like an @outlook.com or @yahoo.com account), Gmailify, and POP fetching of external mail into the Gmail web interface — with full removal in January 2027. Google-hosted addresses (Gmail and Workspace) and the Gmail mobile app are not affected.
API →11 weeks
OpenAI OpenAI has deprecated a family of older audio, realtime, and speech-to-text API models — including gpt-realtime, gpt-audio, and the gpt-4o audio/realtime line — and will remove them from the API on 20 January 2027
Feature →13 weeks
Microsoft Azure Azure Blueprints (Preview) is being retired on a phased timeline — new blueprint definitions can no longer be created as of 31 July 2026, and the service is fully removed on 31 January 2027; Microsoft points teams to Template Specs and Deployment Stacks
SaaS →15 weeks
Center for Open Science The Center for Open Science winds down the OSF Projects workflow — collaboration, file management, and storage — locking new project creation from 16 November 2026 and making all projects read-only after 19 February 2027; preregistration and preprints continue
SaaS →16 weeks
Microsoft Azure Deployment Environments (ADE), the service for on-demand, template-based environment provisioning and developer self-service, will be retired on 22 February 2027; the closing-down process begins 14 September 2026 and Microsoft names no drop-in successor
API →16 weeks
OpenAI OpenAI has deprecated its older speech-to-text API models — whisper-1, gpt-4o-transcribe, gpt-4o-mini-transcribe, and gpt-4o-transcribe-diarize — and will remove them from the API on 26 February 2027
SaaS →21 weeks
Amazon Web Services AWS is ending support for Amazon WorkMail, its managed business email and calendar service. WorkMail stops accepting new customers on 30 April 2026, and on 31 March 2027 existing customers can no longer use it or access the WorkMail console and resources. AWS points customers to third-party email services and a mailbox export path.
Runtime →21 weeks
Oracle Oracle JDK 27, a non-LTS feature release that shipped on 15 September 2026, reaches end of life on 31 March 2027 — after which it receives no further Oracle updates, including security patches, and developers are expected to move to the next release or to an LTS line
API →21 weeks
Cloudflare Cloudflare deprecates three Radar API endpoints — GET /radar/http/top/browser, GET /radar/http/top/browser_family, and GET /radar/netflows/summary — on 2 October 2026, with end of life on 2 April 2027; callers move to the dimensioned summary endpoints.
SaaS →25 weeks
Microsoft Azure Microsoft is ending support for the Node.js 22 LTS runtime on Azure App Service on 30 April 2027; apps keep running but stop receiving security updates and customer support, and Microsoft directs developers to upgrade to Node 24 LTS
Feature →28 weeks
GitLab GitLab Design Management — the feature that lets users attach design assets such as wireframes and mockups to issues — is deprecated and begins removal in GitLab 20.0: new uploads stop, and existing designs become read-only until GitLab 21.0
Feature →28 weeks
GitLab GitLab compliance pipelines — the feature that forces compliance- or security-related CI jobs to run in projects assigned a compliance framework label — are deprecated and will be removed in GitLab 20.0. The replacement is the pipeline execution policy type.
Feature →28 weeks
GitLab GitLab is removing the Dependency Proxy for packages — the feature that proxies and caches packages pulled from upstream Maven registries — in GitLab 20.0 (20 May 2027). It is replaced by the Maven virtual registry, and affected projects must repoint their package-manager configuration from the Dependency Proxy for packages endpoints to the Maven virtual registry.
SaaS →31 weeks
HashiCorp HashiCorp is retiring HCP Vagrant, its hosted Vagrant box registry. New box and registry creation ends 14 December 2026, support ends 15 March 2027, and all operations cease on 7 June 2027, after which hosted boxes are decommissioned. The Vagrant CLI and community edition are not affected.
OS →34 weeks
Canonical Ubuntu 26.10, the interim (non-LTS) release, reaches end of life on July 1, 2027 — about nine months after its October 15, 2026 release. After that date the 26.10 series stops receiving security updates and package fixes, so systems and `ubuntu:26.10` container images pinned to it no longer get patched.
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
Runtime →43 weeks
Microsoft Microsoft ends support for Java 8, 11 and 17 on Azure App Service on 1 September 2027; apps keep running but receive no security updates or customer support, and Microsoft directs customers to upgrade to Java 25
Feature →47 weeks
Microsoft Microsoft is retiring the Azure Functions v1 hosting model on Azure Container Apps on 29 September 2027; after that date existing Functions v1 apps on Azure Container Apps stop running and no longer process requests or event-driven triggers, and must be moved to the Functions v2 hosting model (a native Azure Container App with kind=functionapp)
Feature →47 weeks
Microsoft Microsoft retires the pod name dimension on the Azure Monitor platform metrics kube_pod_status_phase and kube_pod_status_ready for Azure Kubernetes Service on 30 September 2027; the metrics transition to aggregate pod counters and can no longer be filtered, grouped, or alerted on by pod name
SaaS →49 weeks
Microsoft Azure Microsoft is retiring the Azure Key Vault Secrets Provider Extension for Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes clusters on 9 October 2027; the replacement is the Azure Key Vault Secret Store Extension.
Feature →52 weeks