The service offers a unified control for infrastructure management and blockchain network governance, by providing network operations, built-in consortium management, and supporting multiple ledger protocols. Microsoft announced a while ago that on September 10, 2021, the service will be retired and suggests that all data from Azure Blockchain is migrated to an alternative offering.
Microsoft Azure Blockchain retired
Microsoft suggests that the best way to deal with this migration is to, first of all, evaluate the alternative offerings. Keeping in mind what is the current deployment status of the production or evaluation should be enough criteria in order to make the best decision in the end. The migration process itself, once an alternative solution has been chosen, is not so complicated, according to Microsoft: However, depending on the current development plan, users will have to choose between using the existing ledger data on Azure Blockchain Service or simply start a new network and use another desired solution. Microsoft’s suggestion is to create a new consortium: As of right now Microsoft has not mentioned why they decided to shut down Azure Blockchain. What are your thoughts on this subject? Don’t hesitate to leave us a comment in the dedicated section below.
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