Batch Roadmap

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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 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 Roadmap (2026–2027)

Batch support for certain VM series is being retired as these VMs age out and are replaced with newer ones. Customers will need to migrate any batch pools using these series to other VMs.

Series	Retirement Date	Potential Migration Options
NVv3, NVv4	Sept. 30, 2026	NVadsA10_v5
HBv2, HC, NP	May 31, 2027	HBv3, HBv4, HX, NC, ND
D, Ds, Dv2, Dsv2, Ls	May 1, 2028	Dsv5, Ddsv5, Dasv5, Dadsv5, Dsv6,

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