Batch Roadmap

by
Greg DeMichillie

by
Greg DeMichillie

Greg brings with him over two decades of engineering, product and GTM experience. He has held leadership positions at premier... more

Azure Batch allows customers to distribute workloads over groups of VMs to leverage Azure’s scalability and utility computing model to run tasks that benefit from distributed computing power. The service is useful for running jobs such as payroll processing, software builds and test passes, media file encoding, graphics rendering, and artificial intelligence (AI) modeling. Batch handles tasks that comprise the traditional programming pattern of batch processing, such as managing and scaling compute instances, ingesting application and data files, and returning output files.

Product: Azure Batch

Near Term (2025–2026)

Microsoft is retiring the NCv3-series VM family on Sept. 30, 2025. Customers will need to migrate any batch pools using that family. After the retirement date, no new Batch pools can be created with the NCv3 series, existing pools will be unable to scale out and may be forced to resize to zero nodes, effectively shutting them down.

The ability of Azure VMs created without a defined outbound network access method to automatically be assigned a default public IP address will be retired on Sept. 30, 2025. Customers with batch pools created using the simplified compute node communication option may be relying on the default public IP address and will need to configure an explicit outbound access mechanism to maintain outbound network access.