Re-branded / Re-named / Retired / Deprecated Azure Services and Features

Re-branded / Re-named Azure Services:

1. Azure Security Center, Azure Defender - Microsoft Defender for Cloud
2. Azure Defender for loT - Microsoft Defender for loT
3. Azure Sentinel - Microsoft Sentinel
4. Microsoft Cloud App Security - Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps - November 2021
5. Azure SQL Data Warehouse is now Azure Synapse Analytics - November, 2019
6. Log Analytics is now called Azure Monitor logs - February 2019
7. Azure Table storage is now part of Azure Cosmos DB which also has a Azure Cosmos DB Table API offering
8. Windows Azure branded Microsoft Azure - 2014
9. SQL Azure branded Azure SQL Database - 2012

Retired Azure Services & their retirement dates:

1. Azure Container Service - January 31, 2020
2. Azure Scheduler - 30th September 2019 ; Move from Azure Scheduler to Azure Logic Apps
3. Azure Access Control (ACS), a service of Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) - November 7, 2018
4. Azure Service Management support  - 30 June 2018 ; move to Resource Manager
5. Operations Management Suite  -  April 2018; some services consolidated into Azure Monitor
6. Azure SQL Database Premium RS service tier (preview) - February 2018
7. Azure DataMarket - March 31, 2017
8. Azure RemoteApp (introduced in May, 2014) - August 31st, 2017
9. Azure Managed Cache Service and Azure In-Role Cache - November 30, 2016
10. Azure SQL Web and Business databases -  September, 2015
11. Azure SQL Federation - September, 2015
12. Windows Azure SQL Reporting (went live on June 12, 2012) - October 31, 2014

Retired or Deprecated Features:

• 'Switch-AzureMode' in Azure PowerShell
• Affinity Group

- Azure Cost Management offers similar functionality to Cloudyn, a cost optimization tool that Microsoft acquired in 2017. Cloudyn is being deprecated by the end of 2020.

Also see: Azure Deprecations Board

work in progress...

Last updated: 06/June/2020