IoT Central retirement at all region?

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IoT Central retirement at all region?

Park Chongbum 0

Hello,

I received IoT Central retirement notice.

Does this retirement plan impact on all current IoT Central app and its services?

According to the retirement plan, there is no Japan East in impacted region.

Will Japan East be continued?

Ganesh Gurram 7,570 평판 포인트 Microsoft 외부 직원 중재자

2026-09-28T04:58:47.9366667+00:00

Hello @Park Chongbum

Thank you for reaching out.

According to the current Microsoft Learn documentation, Azure IoT Central applications can be hosted in the following regions:

Australia East, Canada Central, Central US, East US, East US 2, Japan East, North Europe, South Central US, Southeast Asia, UK South, West Europe, and West US.

Japan East is currently listed as a supported IoT Central region.

For more information, please refer to the following Microsoft Learn documentation:

Create an IoT Central application – Microsoft Learn

Regarding the retirement notice, since Japan East is not listed among the impacted regions in the notice you referenced, the notice does not indicate that Japan East is affected. Based on the current documentation, Japan East remains a supported IoT Central region.

I Hope this helps. Do let me know if you have any further queries.

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Park Chongbum 0 평판 포인트

2026-09-28T06:51:38.17+00:00

The notice mail seems to announce IoT Central service is being retired.

This is still quite confusing becuase overall service is retiring but specific region continue servicing?

Is this official annoucement?
I have IoT Central app in EU, Japan, US regions and scaling out. Who can precisely tell me if I have to build my own IoT app outside of Azure or stay in Japan?

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Ganesh Gurram 7,570 평판 포인트 Microsoft 외부 직원 중재자

2026-09-28T04:58:47.9366667+00:00

Hello @Park Chongbum

Thank you for reaching out.

According to the current Microsoft Learn documentation, Azure IoT Central applications can be hosted in the following regions:

Australia East, Canada Central, Central US, East US, East US 2, Japan East, North Europe, South Central US, Southeast Asia, UK South, West Europe, and West US.

Japan East is currently listed as a supported IoT Central region.

For more information, please refer to the following Microsoft Learn documentation:

Create an IoT Central application – Microsoft Learn

Regarding the retirement notice, since Japan East is not listed among the impacted regions in the notice you referenced, the notice does not indicate that Japan East is affected. Based on the current documentation, Japan East remains a supported IoT Central region.

I Hope this helps. Do let me know if you have any further queries.

If this answers your query, please do click Accept Answer and Yes for was this answer helpful.
Park Chongbum 0 평판 포인트

2026-09-28T06:51:38.17+00:00

The notice mail seems to announce IoT Central service is being retired.

This is still quite confusing becuase overall service is retiring but specific region continue servicing?

Is this official annoucement?
I have IoT Central app in EU, Japan, US regions and scaling out. Who can precisely tell me if I have to build my own IoT app outside of Azure or stay in Japan?

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Hello @Park Chongbum

Thank you for the follow-up, and I apologize for the confusion in my previous response.

Microsoft has now published official guidance regarding the future of Azure IoT Central. According to the current Microsoft Learn documentation, new Azure IoT Central application creation became unavailable starting September 23, 2026, and existing Azure IoT Central applications can continue to operate as-is through September 20, 2029.

The retirement/transition should therefore not be interpreted as applying only to the regions listed in the notification. In particular, the fact that Japan East was not included in the impacted-region list does not mean that IoT Central will continue indefinitely in Japan East after the overall IoT Central transition date.

For your existing IoT Central applications across EU, Japan, and US regions, Microsoft's official guidance is to plan a transition toward the modern Azure IoT architecture. Microsoft specifically points to Azure IoT Hub and Device Provisioning Service (DPS) for device connectivity and provisioning, along with Azure Device Registry and Microsoft Fabric capabilities.

Therefore, you do not necessarily need to build your IoT solution outside of Azure or move everything to Japan East. Microsoft is providing an Azure-based modernization path for existing IoT Central solutions.

I recommend reviewing the official Microsoft guidance here:

Azure IoT Central is evolving - Microsoft Learn

Since you are currently scaling applications across multiple regions, I would recommend beginning the migration assessment based on this official guidance rather than planning to consolidate the applications in Japan East.

Hope this helps. Do let us know if you have any further queries.