Azure Kubernetes Service end of life dates
The support dates the endoflife.date record (community-maintained) holds for Azure Kubernetes Service, read on 30 Sep 2026: when security support ends for each version (cycle), when active support ends, and extended support where the record shows it. Below them, what Cyber Essentials, the Essential Eight, CIS Controls v8, PCI DSS and NIST SP 800-53 ask of a version past its end.
- Oldest version still in support
- 1.34, security support to 30 Nov 2026
- Next end date
- 1.34, security support ends 30 Nov 2026
- Vendor's own notice
- the vendor lifecycle policy for Azure Kubernetes Service: https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/aks/supported-kubernetes-versions (shown, not linked: the site refused our automated check; open it in your browser); the vendor notice is authoritative
- Record
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Kind
- managed service
- Versions in the record
- 16
- Versions past vendor support
- 13
- Essential Eight class
- an application outside the priority classes: Patch applications asks for its removal once no longer supported at ML3; at ML1 and ML2 no held Essential Eight clause turns on it.
- Source
- endoflife.date/azure-kubernetes-service, community-maintained, MIT licence, read 30 Sep 2026; sources
Azure Kubernetes Service versions and their support dates
as at 30 Sep 2026| Cycle | Released | Active support ends | Security support ends | Extended support ends | On the read date | Vendor notice | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.36 | 30 Jun 2026 | not given separately | 30 Jun 2027 | 30 Jun 2028 | supported | notice | |
| 1.35 | 5 Mar 2026 | not given separately | 31 Mar 2027 | 31 Mar 2028 | supported | notice | |
| 1.34 | 4 Jan 2026 | not given separately | 30 Nov 2026 | 30 Nov 2027 | ends within 90 days | notice | |
| 1.33 | 17 Jun 2025 | not given separately | 31 Jul 2026 | 31 Jul 2027 | extended support only | notice | |
| 1.32 | 6 Apr 2025 | not given separately | 31 Mar 2026 | 31 Mar 2027 | extended support only | notice | |
| 1.31 | 25 Oct 2024 | not given separately | 1 Nov 2025 | 30 Nov 2026 | extended support only | notice | |
| 1.30 | 5 Aug 2024 | not given separately | 22 Aug 2025 | 31 Jul 2026 | past vendor support | notice | |
| 1.29 | 18 Mar 2024 | not given separately | 31 Mar 2025 | 30 Apr 2026 | past vendor support | notice | |
| 1.28 | 7 Nov 2023 | not given separately | 31 Jan 2025 | 28 Feb 2026 | past vendor support | notice | |
| 1.27 | 16 Aug 2023 | not given separately | 31 Jul 2024 | 31 Jul 2025 | past vendor support | notice | |
| 1.26 | 18 Apr 2023 | not given separately | 11 Apr 2024 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 1.25 | 14 Dec 2022 | not given separately | 14 Jan 2024 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 1.24 | 17 Aug 2022 | not given separately | 31 Jul 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 1.23 | 26 Apr 2022 | not given separately | 2 Apr 2023 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 1.22 | 10 Jan 2022 | not given separately | 4 Dec 2022 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice | |
| 1.21 | 18 Aug 2021 | not given separately | 31 Jul 2022 | none in the record | past vendor support | notice |
A version this table does not list is not in the record: the finder reads it as unknown, never supported. The dates are the record's own; nothing here states a date the record does not hold.
What the schemes ask of a version past its end
- Cyber Essentials
- software on in-scope devices licensed and supported by the vendor, meaning it still receives security updates; unsupported software removed or segregated (SU.1, SU.4). Cyber Essentials Plus: removed, or isolated with compensating controls (PM-02).
- Essential Eight
- An application outside the priority classes: Patch applications asks for its removal once no longer supported at ML3; at ML1 and ML2 no held Essential Eight clause turns on it.
- CIS Controls v8, Safeguard 2.2
- only software that still receives vendor support may be marked authorised; unsupported software kept for the mission needs a recorded exception with compensating controls and the acceptance of the remaining risk; support status checked at least monthly.
- PCI DSS 12.3.4
- hardware and software reviewed at least every 12 months: that vendors still supply timely security fixes, end-of-life announcements documented, and a remediation plan for outdated technology approved by senior management.
- NIST SP 800-53 SA-22
- system components replaced when support is no longer available from the developer, vendor or manufacturer, or alternative sources of continued support provided.