Retirement Announcement - Basic SKU Public IP addresses will be retired on 30 September 2025

ChaitanyaNaykodi-MSFT 27,661 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
2022-10-03T15:22:05.477+00:00

Basic SKU Public IP addresses will be deprecated on September 30, 2025. Below are timelines to keep in mind for deprecation:

March 31, 2025 - Last day to create new Basic SKU Public IP addresses. After this date, you will not be able to create new Basic SKU Public IP addresses. Basic SKU Public IP addresses created prior to this date will continue to work.

September 30, 2025 - Retirement Day of Basic SKU Public IP addresses. After this date, you will not be able to use Basic SKU Public IP addresses.

Please note that this retirement will not affect customers that are on Azure Cloud Services (extended support).

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  1. Arnel Joaquin 40 Reputation points
    2025-03-19T15:51:59.44+00:00

    I just performed this task on 2 separate vm's. Had to disassociate the ip, upgrade basic to standard, and then re-associate the ip. Luckily, it was static and kept same ip address.

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  2. Veruska 10 Reputation points
    2025-08-01T11:46:10.83+00:00

    Hi,

    I have a couple of questions regarding VPN Gateways (Standard and VPNGw1-5) using Public IPs with Basic SKU.

    I've checked the table with the timeline here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/whats-new and I understand they're different for each case (Standard and VPNGw1).

    For Standard SKU VPN Gateways, which are being deprecated, it says: If you do not upgrade your gateway by August 2025, your gateway will be automatically upgraded to VPNGw1AZ (Standard) or VPNGw2AZ (High-Performance) after 30 September 2025.

    Does it happen within a maintenance window? Is it guaranteed there'll be no downtime? I understand this migration will also include the PIP changes from basic to standard? Will we be able to choose the dates/hours for the migration?

    For VPNGw1-5, it says there'll be a migration tool, which is not still available, but shows this workflow in the documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/basic-public-ip-migrate-howto which does say there'll be downtime of 5 mins (other FAQ says 10mins).

    Then in this documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/gateway-sku-consolidation says:

    From September 2025 to September 2026, all existing VPN gateways using VpnGw1-5 SKUs (non-AZ SKUs) could be seamlessly migrated to VpnGw1-5 SKUs (AZ).

    So, not sure if there's too much information everywhere that it starts to be confusing.

    Do we have to wait for forced migration so the upgrade is seamless for all kind of VPN Gateways SKU or will we have the option with the Migration tool for it to be seamless as well?

    Thanks for the help.

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  3. ChaitanyaNaykodi-MSFT 27,661 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
    2022-10-03T15:23:04.41+00:00

    To migrate to Standard SKU Public IP addresses, please follow the instructions here.

    If you have any additional questions regarding this retirement, please comment on this thread to ask your specific questions and we will try our best to answer. Thank you!

    1 person found this answer helpful.

  4. Pawel Gula 96 Reputation points
    2025-04-03T07:53:03.8066667+00:00

    Is it true that the Azure VMs created before that date (Sept 30) Internet access will continue to work using default outbound access as it is today ?


  5. Maria Belova 5 Reputation points
    2025-09-18T11:27:49.4333333+00:00

    Hello Team,

    this change is highly critical for our application, and we’re looking for ways to make Azure updates more controllable and predictable, is it possible to get:

    1. A confirmed date and timeframe for when our resources are to be migrated rather than a general email announcements
    2. Notifications when the migration work has started and completed
    3. Any other transparency measures Azure Team can offer to help us stay informed and aligned

    Thank you a lot in advance,

    Maria

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