Azure Batch Low Priority VMs are retiring on September 30th, 2025

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Azure Batch Low Priority VMs are retiring on September 30th, 2025

Deprecation ID: 479cec47-8024-4c70-aca9-2362c58394d5
Deadline: Sep 30, 2025
Impacted Services:

• Azure Batch

More information:

• Announcement
• Migration Guide

Notice

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

Azure Batch offers Low Priority and Spot Virtual Machines (VMs). Low Priority VMs are a deprecated feature and will be retired on 30 September 2025. Please transition to using Spot VMs, the official generally available (GA) preemptible offering from the Compute platform.

Timeline

Phase	Date	Description
Announcement	Sep 30, 2022	Deprecation was announced
Deprecation	Sep 30, 2025	The existing Low priority pools may no longer work or be provisioned. They may be forced to be scaled down after the target date.

Impact

Azure Batch Low Priority VMs are retiring on September 30th, 2025 and migration to Azure Spot Virtual Machines is required.

Required Action

A migration guide is provided here.

Here's the official report from Microsoft:

Follow these steps to transition using Spot VMs before 30 September 2025. After that, we’ll stop supporting Low priority VMs. The existing Low priority pools may no longer work or be provisioned. They may be forced to be scaled down after the target date.

Contact

You can get in touch through the following options:

• Contact Azure support (link).
• Get answers from Microsoft Q&A (link).

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