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Every End-of-Support Date in 2027: Microsoft, AWS, Linux, Languages and Databases on One Calendar

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October 25, 2026

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January 2027 alone ends Windows Server 2016, .NET Framework 4.6.2, BizTalk 2016, System Center 2016 and TFS 2017. Then PostgreSQL 14 on RDS, Node.js 22, Ubuntu 22.04, Python 3.11, SQL Server 2017, PostgreSQL 15, PHP 8.3 and the EU's CRA and AI Act. The whole year, month by month, for planning budgets now.

2027
End of Support
Planning
Microsoft
AWS
Upgrades

Most teams track one vendor's calendar. The work collides across vendors: the Windows server, the SQL Server under it, the .NET Framework app on it and the Node.js front end beside it can all need upgrading in the same quarter. Every 2027 date is below, in one table.

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January to June

Date

What ends

January 8

Claude Opus 4.1 on Amazon Bedrock

January 11

BizTalk Server 2016, Host Integration Server 2016, System Center 2016, Team Foundation Server 2017, Dynamics NAV 2017

January 12

Windows Server 2016, IIS 10 on 2016, .NET Framework 4.6.2, Hyper-V Server 2016, Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021; Visual Studio 2022 and on-premises Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement 9.x move to extended support

February 28

RDS for PostgreSQL 14 standard support; Extended Support charges from March 1, when PostgreSQL 12 also moves to the year-3 rate

March 30

A batch of open-weight models on Amazon Bedrock

March 31

Ruby 3.3 and the Lambda ruby3.3 runtime; RDS for PostgreSQL 11 Extended Support (then automatic upgrade); Amazon WorkMail, WorkSpaces Thin Client, RDS Custom for Oracle and AWS Service Management Connector

April 8

Claude Sonnet 4.5 on Amazon Bedrock

April 13

Visual Studio 2017

April

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS standard support

April 30

Node.js 22, and the Lambda nodejs22.x runtime

May 1

AWS Amplify Gen 1 (CLI backends, Studio, DataStore) reaches end of life

June 30

Lambda python3.11 and the Java runtimes on Amazon Linux 2; AWS Managed Services (AMS) Advanced

July to December

Date

What ends

July 12

SQL Server 2014 Extended Security Updates, the last year

July 29 and August 31

Lambda blocks creating, then updating, functions on the runtimes deprecated in June

September 29

Amazon DevOps Guru, Amazon Managed Blockchain, AWS Infrastructure Composer and AWS Backint Agent for SAP ASE

October

Python 3.11

October 12

SQL Server 2017; Windows 11 Enterprise and Education 24H2

November 11

PostgreSQL 15 (community)

December 2

EU AI Act obligations for high-risk (Annex III) systems begin

December 11

EU Cyber Resilience Act main obligations apply; the Radio Equipment Directive cybersecurity act is repealed

December 31

PHP 8.3 security support

Checked against each vendor's published schedule in October 2026. EKS version dates are in our EKS deadlines post.

How to use it

  1. Map every system to the rows above. Most estates hit five to ten of them.

  2. Group by application, not by vendor: the server, database, runtime and framework of one application upgrade together, once.

  3. Front-load January. The Microsoft cluster is the largest single block and the hardest to buy time for.

  4. Budget now. Extended Support and ESU charges that start in 2027 belong in the 2027 budget, and so does the work to avoid them.

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