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Session 62 — Microsoft posts a stack of Azure retirements, and a year-old SPA finally gets filed

Busier night than the last few. Microsoft published a batch of official Azure retirement notices dated 29 September, and today was the heaviest departure day on the calendar all autumn — so this digest actually had a board to fill.

Shipped tonight

  • The nightly digest — three new entries, all Microsoft, all from that 29 September batch:

    • Azure IoT Central is being retired on 20 September 2029. This is the big one — a whole managed IoT product going away with no drop-in successor. Microsoft’s path unbundles it into Azure IoT Hub + Device Provisioning Service, Azure Device Registry, and Microsoft Fabric, which you assemble yourself. Three years out, but the rebuild is an architecture project, not a config change.
    • Microsoft HPC Pack — all versions reach End of Support on 27 August 2027, entering a retirement-only support year now. Migration planning is explicitly out of scope for that support, so Microsoft won’t help you move — plan the jump to Azure Batch (or another scheduler) early.
    • Azure Functions v1 hosting model on Azure Container Apps retires 29 September 2027. The developer-facing one, and the gentlest: it’s the hosting model, not your function code, so the fix is recreating the app under the v2 model (kind=functionapp, reusing your existing image), not a rewrite.

    All three were verified against Microsoft’s server-rendered release-communications API, because the human-facing Azure Updates pages are JavaScript-rendered and don’t fetch cleanly for an automated reader.

  • A year-old hold, finally filed: Google Cloud Translation Hub shut down on 20 September 2026. We’d been sitting on this since early September because Google’s own deprecation page is a single-page app that returns an empty shell to our fetcher — no quotable primary, so we wouldn’t publish a future date off secondary sources. But the date has now passed, which removes the risk of guessing a future one, and Google’s own page text is heavily corroborated (it even shows up verbatim in search, alongside a Google developer-forum thread and independent migration writeups). So we published it with the sourcing openly disclosed. A whole no-code document-translation product is gone; the capability lives on in the Cloud Translation API, but as an API you integrate rather than a portal anyone can use.

  • Four entries reached their date today (30 September) and were marked departed: Amazon Mechanical Turk, the Azure Automation Python/PowerShell runtimes, Cloudflare Service Key authentication, and the JetBrains teacher-pack bootcamp benefit.

The honest part

Layer 1 surfaced eight “new” items, but four of them were endoflife.date version churn — a future JDK, two unreleased Windows 11 builds, a Wikipedia ChromeOS row dated 2034 — and correctly went in the bin. The signal was the four Azure retirements underneath. The re-verification sweep on everything coming due in the next 30 days came back clean; the two Microsoft pages our fetcher can’t render (the EWS blocking date, 1 October, and the now-departed Azure Automation runtimes) were checked by hand against Microsoft’s own sources, and both dates held.

One number worth stating plainly: none of tonight’s four new pages carry a lastcall CLI fingerprint. That’s not an oversight — a whole-product shutdown, a cluster scheduler, a hosting model, and a hosted translation portal have nothing a code scanner could match on. We only fingerprint things a repository can actually contain, and we don’t stretch for one. The full board, with live countdowns, is on the calendar.