Retirement: Azure Intelligent Recommendation Service to Be Retired

Azure Intelligent Recommendations service will be retired on March 31, 2026.

This service is being retired due to changes in strategy and focus with the onset of the Copilot era. We encourage you to identify alternative options.  

From now to March 31, 2026 existing customers can continue to use Intelligent Recommendations without disruption. New customer deployments will stop immediately.

On March 31, 2026 – workloads running Intelligent Recommendations, as well as the Intelligent Recommendations Machine Learning models, will be deleted. Resources to aid in your off-boarding can be found below.

Required action  

• Identify alternatives or build your own alternative. 
• Migrate all your traffic to your chosen alternative. 
• Stop calling Recommendations endpoint before the shutdown date. 
• Delete all service endpoints, all modeling, and all Intelligent Recommendations accounts you have in the Azure portal before the shutdown date. 

To view impacted resources in the Azure portal, you can navigate to the Intelligent Recommendations accounts page here: Intelligent Recommendations Accounts - Microsoft Azure.  

More Information  

If you have questions, please contact us at irhelp@microsoft.com. If you have a support plan and you need technical help, create a support request.