Merge pull request #213442 from mbender-ms/lb-retire-lb

Load Balancer - Added retirement of Basic SKU notice

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/load-balancer/load-balancer-basic-upgrade-guidance.md

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 # Upgrading from basic Load Balancer - Guidance
 
+>[!Important]
+>On September 30, 2025, Basic Load Balancer will be retired. For more information, see the [official announcement(https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/azure-basic-load-balancer-will-be-retired-on-30-september-2025-upgrade-to-standard-load-balancer/)]. If you are currently using Basic Load Balancer, make sure to upgrade to Standard Load Balancer prior to the retirement date. This article will help guide you through the upgrade process. 
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 In this article, we'll discuss guidance for upgrading your Basic Load Balancer instances to Standard Load Balancer. Standard Load Balancer is recommended for all production instances and provides many [key differences](#basic-load-balancer-sku-vs-standard-load-balancer-sku) to your infrastructure.
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 ## Steps to complete the upgrade
 
 We recommend the following approach for upgrading to Standard Load Balancer:

articles/load-balancer/skus.md

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 # Azure Load Balancer SKUs
 
+>[!Important]
+>On September 30, 2025, Basic Load Balancer will be retired. For more information, see the [official announcement(https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/azure-basic-load-balancer-will-be-retired-on-30-september-2025-upgrade-to-standard-load-balancer/)]. If you are currently using Basic Load Balancer, make sure to upgrade to Standard Load Balancer prior to the retirement date. See [Upgrading from Basic Load Balancer - Guidance](load-balancer-basic-upgrade-guidance.md) for upgrade guidance. 
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 Azure Load Balancer has three SKUs.
 
 ## <a name="skus"></a> SKU comparison

articles/load-balancer/upgrade-basic-standard-virtual-machine-scale-sets.md

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 ms.author: vsantana
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 # Upgrade a basic load balancer used with Virtual Machine Scale Sets
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+>[!Important]
+>On September 30, 2025, Basic Load Balancer will be retired. For more information, see the [official announcement(https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/azure-basic-load-balancer-will-be-retired-on-30-september-2025-upgrade-to-standard-load-balancer/)]. If you are currently using Basic Load Balancer, make sure to upgrade to Standard Load Balancer prior to the retirement date. See [Upgrading from Basic Load Balancer - Guidance](load-balancer-basic-upgrade-guidance.md) for upgrade guidance. 
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 [Azure Standard Load Balancer](load-balancer-overview.md) offers a rich set of functionality and high availability through zone redundancy. To learn more about Load Balancer SKU, see [comparison table](./skus.md#skus).
 
 This article introduces a PowerShell module that creates a Standard Load Balancer with the same configuration as the Basic Load Balancer along with the associated  Virtual Machine Scale Set.

articles/load-balancer/upgrade-basic-standard.md

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 # Upgrade from a basic public to standard public load balancer
 
+>[!Important]
+>On September 30, 2025, Basic Load Balancer will be retired. For more information, see the [official announcement(https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/azure-basic-load-balancer-will-be-retired-on-30-september-2025-upgrade-to-standard-load-balancer/)]. If you are currently using Basic Load Balancer, make sure to upgrade to Standard Load Balancer prior to the retirement date. See [Upgrading from Basic Load Balancer - Guidance](load-balancer-basic-upgrade-guidance.md) for upgrade guidance. 
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 [Azure Standard Load Balancer](load-balancer-overview.md) offers a rich set of functionality and high availability through zone redundancy. To learn more about Azure Load Balancer SKUs, see [comparison table](./skus.md#skus).
 
 There are two stages in an upgrade:

articles/load-balancer/upgrade-basicInternal-standard.md

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 # Upgrade Azure Internal Load Balancer- No Outbound Connection Required
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+>[!Important]
+>On September 30, 2025, Basic Load Balancer will be retired. For more information, see the [official announcement(https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/azure-basic-load-balancer-will-be-retired-on-30-september-2025-upgrade-to-standard-load-balancer/)]. If you are currently using Basic Load Balancer, make sure to upgrade to Standard Load Balancer prior to the retirement date. See [Upgrading from Basic Load Balancer - Guidance](load-balancer-basic-upgrade-guidance.md) for upgrade guidance. 
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 [Azure Standard Load Balancer](load-balancer-overview.md) offers a rich set of functionality and high availability through zone redundancy. To learn more about Load Balancer SKU, see [comparison table](./skus.md#skus).
 
 This article introduces a PowerShell script that creates a Standard Load Balancer with the same configuration as the Basic Load Balancer along with migrating traffic from Basic Load Balancer to Standard Load Balancer.

articles/load-balancer/upgrade-internalbasic-to-publicstandard.md

@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ ms.author: mbender
 
 # Upgrade an internal basic load balancer - Outbound connections required
 
+>[!Important]
+>On September 30, 2025, Basic Load Balancer will be retired. For more information, see the [official announcement(https://azure.microsoft.com/updates/azure-basic-load-balancer-will-be-retired-on-30-september-2025-upgrade-to-standard-load-balancer/)]. If you are currently using Basic Load Balancer, make sure to upgrade to Standard Load Balancer prior to the retirement date. See [Upgrading from Basic Load Balancer - Guidance](load-balancer-basic-upgrade-guidance.md) for upgrade guidance. 
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 A standard [Azure Load Balancer](load-balancer-overview.md) offers increased functionality and high availability through zone redundancy. For more information about Azure Load Balancer SKUs, see [Azure Load Balancer SKUs](./skus.md#skus). A standard internal Azure Load Balancer doesn't provide outbound connectivity. The PowerShell script in this article, migrates the basic load balancer configuration to a standard public load balancer.
 
 There are four stages in the upgrade: