The deprecation policy that applies to Compute Engine is defined in Google Cloud's terms of service (section 1) as Discontinuation of Services. The deprecation policy only applies to the features and services listed here.
After Google deprecates a Compute Engine feature, the feature is available for at least the period of time defined in the terms of service. After this period of time, Google schedules the feature or service for shutdown.
The following table lists Compute Engine's feature deprecations and their shutdown schedule.
| Feature | Deprecated | Shutdown date | For more information |
|---|---|---|---|
| OS Login POSIX groups support | September 26, 2024 | September 26, 2025 | OS Login POSIX groups support deprecation |
| NVIDIA K80 | May 1, 2023 | May 1, 2024 | NVIDIA K80 end of support |
| Global serial console gateway | April 30, 2024 | April 30, 2025 | Global serial console gateway deprecation |
Method: projects.moveInstance |
May 2022 | February 2024 | Method: projects.moveInstance. To move VMs, we recommend that you follow the instructions in Move a VM instance between zones or regions. |
| Throttling metrics for persistent disks | June 23, 2022 | June 22, 2023 | Throttling rates |
| CloudEndure | January 30, 2019 | January 01, 2020 | CloudEndure deprecation |
| Compute Engine activity Logs | September 30, 2019 | September 30, 2020 | Compute Engine activity logs deprecation |
| Compute Engine v0.1 and v1beta1 metadata server endpoints | September 30, 2019 | September 30, 2020 | v0.1 and v1beta1 metadata server endpoints deprecation |