The Google Cloud Platform Terms of Service (section 1.4(d), "Discontinuation of Services") defines the deprecation policy that applies to Vertex AI. The deprecation policy only applies to the services, features, or products listed therein.
After a service, feature, or product is officially deprecated, it continues to be available for at least the period of time defined in the Terms of Service. After this period of time, the service is scheduled for shutdown.
| Feature | Deprecated date | Shutdown date | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| AutoML text | September 15, 2024 | June 15, 2025 | Starting on September 15, 2024, you can only customize Text classification, entity extraction, and sentiment analysis objectives by moving to Vertex AI Gemini prompts and tuning. Training or updating models for Vertex AI AutoML for Text classification, entity extraction, and sentiment analysis objectives will no longer be available. You can continue using existing Vertex AI AutoML Text models until June 15, 2025. For more information about how Gemini offers enhanced user experience through improved prompting capabilities, see Introduction to tuning. |
| Vertex AI Workbench managed notebooks | January 16, 2024 | January 30, 2025 | On January 30, 2025, support for managed notebooks will end and the ability to create managed notebooks instances will be removed. Existing instances will continue to function but patches, updates, and upgrades won't be available. To continue using Vertex AI Workbench, we recommend that you migrate your managed notebooks instances to Vertex AI Workbench instances. |
| Vertex AI Workbench user-managed notebooks | January 16, 2024 | January 30, 2025 | On January 30, 2025, support for user-managed notebooks will end and the ability to create user-managed notebooks instances will be removed. Existing instances will continue to function but patches, updates, and upgrades won't be available. To continue using Vertex AI Workbench, we recommend that you migrate your user-managed notebooks instances to Vertex AI Workbench instances. |
| Vertex AI Data Labeling Service | June 30, 2023 | October 3, 2024 | For new labeling tasks, you can use add labels using the Google Cloud console or access data labeling solutions from our partners in the Google Cloud Console Marketplace. |
| Legacy AutoML Natural Language | July 31, 2023 | August 7, 2024 | New models can no longer be trained nor deployed on the legacy platform. Already deployed models will stop working on May 30, 2024. All the functionality of legacy Vertex AI and new features are available on the Vertex AI platform. See Migrate to Vertex AI to learn how to migrate your resources. |
| Legacy AutoML Video Intelligence | January 23, 2023 | July 31, 2024 | Migrate to Vertex AI, which includes all functionality of legacy AutoML Video Intelligence as well as new features. |
| Legacy AutoML Vision | January 23, 2023 | July 31, 2024 | Migrate to Vertex AI, which includes all functionality of legacy AutoML Vision as well as new features. |
| Legacy AutoML Tables | January 23, 2023 | July 24, 2024 | Migrate to Vertex AI, which includes all functionality of legacy AutoML Tables as well as new features. |