Clarification needed: Will production bots stop working after Azure Language Studio retirement?

Sana Mohammad 0 Reputation points
2026-02-13T10:27:44.4666667+00:00

I noticed an in-portal notification saying Language Studio will retire on February 16, but the Microsoft documentation states the official retirement date is March 20, 2027.

Before I take action, I need to confirm: If we do not migrate our Custom Question Answering and Conversational Language Understanding (CLU) projects from Language Studio to Azure AI Foundry, will our existing production bots stop working?

According to the documentation, after March 20, 2027 the Language Studio UI will no longer be available, but existing projects, data, and service endpoints will not be impacted. Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/language-service/migration-studio-to-foundry

Can Microsoft please confirm whether the runtime endpoints for CLU and CQA will continue working post-retirement?

Azure Language in Foundry Tools
Azure Language in Foundry Tools

An Azure service that provides natural language capabilities including sentiment analysis, entity extraction, and automated question answering.

Locked Question. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments No comments

1 answer

Sort by: Most helpful
  1. Yevhen Marynchak 0 Reputation points
    2026-02-13T12:55:48.4533333+00:00

    Check the official announcement and timeline

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments No comments