Retirement: Migration of Azure Batch Low-Priority VMs to Spot VMs in early March
Microsoft retired this Batch feature on 1 March 2026.
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- Microsoft id
543279- Products
- Batch
- Update type
- Retirements
- Product categories
- Compute
- Retirement
- 1 March 2026
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- Azure Batch status
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Microsoft says
Azure Batch had retired Low-Priority VMs on September 30, 2025 and will begin a system-initiated migration to Spot VMs beginning March 1, 2026.
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