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stv1 platform retirement (August 2024)

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As a cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS), Azure API Management abstracts many details of the infrastructure used to host and run your service. The infrastructure associated with the API Management stv1 compute platform version will be retired effective 31 August 2024. A more current compute platform version (stv2) is already available, and provides enhanced service capabilities.

The following table summarizes the compute platforms currently used for instances in the different API Management service tiers.

Version Description Architecture Tiers
stv2 Single-tenant v2 Azure-allocated compute infrastructure that supports availability zones, private endpoints Developer, Basic, Standard, Premium1
stv1 Single-tenant v1 Azure-allocated compute infrastructure Developer, Basic, Standard, Premium
mtv1 Multi-tenant v1 Shared infrastructure that supports native autoscaling and scaling down to zero in times of no traffic Consumption

To take advantage of upcoming features, we're recommending that customers migrate their Azure API Management instances from the stv1 compute platform to the stv2 compute platform. The stv2 compute platform comes with additional features and improvements such as support for Azure Private Link and other networking features.

New instances created in service tiers other than the Consumption tier are mostly hosted on the stv2 platform already. Existing instances on the stv1 compute platform will continue to work normally until the retirement date, but those instances won’t receive the latest features available to the stv2 platform. Support for stv1 instances will be retired by 31 August 2024.

Is my service affected by this?

If the value of the platformVersion property of your service is stv1, it is hosted on the stv1 platform. See How do I know which platform hosts my API Management instance?

What is the deadline for the change?

Support for API Management instances hosted on the stv1 platform will be retired by 31 August 2024.

After 31 August 2024, any instance hosted on the stv1 platform won't be supported, and could experience system outages.

What do I need to do?

Migrate all your existing instances hosted on the stv1 compute platform to the stv2 compute platform by 31 August 2024.

If you have existing instances hosted on the stv1 platform, you can follow our migration guide which provides all the details to ensure a successful migration.

Help and support

If you have questions, get answers from community experts in Microsoft Q&A. If you have a support plan and you need technical help, create a support request.

  1. For Summary, type a description of your issue, for example, "stv1 retirement".
  2. Under Issue type, select Technical.
  3. Under Subscription, select your subscription.
  4. Under Service, select My services, then select API Management Service.
  5. Under Resource, select the Azure resource that you’re creating a support request for.
  6. For Problem type, select Administration and Management.
  7. For Problem subtype, select Upgrade, Scale or SKU Changes.

Next steps

See all upcoming breaking changes and feature retirements.