Azure ISV Marketplace retirement
Astronomer is retiring the Azure ISV (LIFTR) Marketplace offering for Astro. The program is fully deprecated on July 1, 2026.
Your Astro platform keeps running throughout the migration. Your Organization, Workspaces, Astro Deployments, Dags, Dag history, users, and data are all preserved. This change affects how you’re billed and how you sign in, not the Astro product you use every day.
Two affected groups need to take action:
- Azure ISV PayGo plans: If you purchased Astro through the Team PayGo or Developer PayGo plans on the Azure Marketplace, you complete a few short steps yourself.
- Azure ISV annual contracts: If you’re on an annual Azure contract that runs on the LIFTR integration, contact your Astronomer account representative for a guided migration.
If you purchased Astro directly through Astronomer (at cloud.astronomer.io or through a direct order form), this change doesn’t affect you, regardless of which cloud you run on.
Why Astronomer is retiring this offering
The LIFTR-based integration was built with Microsoft to make it easy to buy and provision Astro from the Azure Portal. In practice, it limits how flexibly you can configure Astro, particularly around SSO, role mapping, custom domains, and contract terms. Retiring the integration moves every Astro account onto the same fully featured billing and identity surface, which provides:
- More SSO flexibility: Custom domains, group-to-role mapping, SCIM provisioning, and conditional access.
- More billing flexibility: Annual commitments, custom terms, and invoicing options that the Marketplace format couldn’t offer.
- Faster access to new features: Features that were difficult to expose through the managed Marketplace experience are immediately available on the standard Astro surface.
Timeline
The following dates apply to both affected groups:
The Marketplace plan options remain visible in the Azure portal UI even though they’re no longer purchasable.
Migrate from an Azure ISV PayGo plan
You can complete this migration yourself in a few minutes.
Add a credit card
- Go to the Astronomer billing page.
- Add a credit card as your payment method.
After your card is on file, your Astro usage bills against it on a monthly cycle. Your current pricing and plan terms are honored, so you don’t need to re-select a plan or re-sign anything.
Astronomer terminates your Azure Marketplace subscription, so don’t cancel it yourself in the Azure portal.
Verify that standard Azure SSO works
- Go to cloud.astronomer.io.
- Sign in with your corporate email address (for example,
you@yourcompany.com). This routes you to the standard Azure SSO connection. - Confirm that you have full access to your account.
Remove the current SSO connection
If you’re an Organization Owner, go to the authentication settings page and remove the old SSO connection. For step-by-step instructions, see Reconfigure SSO to a new identity provider.
The Developer PayGo and Team PayGo tiers default to Allow all login methods, so you can sign in with an email and password combination or Google authentication. You can stop the SSO reconfiguration here unless you want to add a new SSO connection.
(Optional) Reset the SSO connection to a new Azure AD connection
If you want to add a new SSO connection, follow the steps in Register Astro as an application on Azure.
Migrate from an Azure ISV annual contract
Your Astronomer account representative can guide you through this migration. Contact them directly if you have any questions.
What to expect
Your Astronomer account representative contacts you within a few weeks to confirm your setup, walk through the billing and SSO migration on a short call, and schedule any coordination needed on your side.
Your billing method stays valid through the program deprecation. There is no billing interruption, no double-billing, and no action required from your procurement or finance team until your account representative proposes the next step. Your current pricing and plan terms are honored through the migration.
Prepare for the migration call
Complete these steps before your call:
Verify that standard Azure SSO works
- Go to cloud.astronomer.io.
- Sign in with your corporate email address (for example,
you@yourcompany.com). This routes you to the standard Azure SSO connection. - Confirm that you have full access to your account.
Remove the current SSO connection
If you’re an Organization Owner, go to the authentication settings page and remove the old SSO connection. For step-by-step instructions, see Reconfigure SSO to a new identity provider.
(Optional) Enable all login methods for your Organization
If your security or IT teams allow it, you can enable all login methods for your Organization. This shortens the migration because you don’t have to set up a new SSO connection.
- Go to your Organization’s authentication settings page.
- In the Advanced section, select the option to enable all login methods.
(Optional) Reset the SSO connection to a new Azure AD connection
If you need to add a new SSO connection, follow the steps in Register Astro as an application on Azure.
If you have questions before your account representative contacts you, email platform@astronomer.io. Astronomer routes the question internally or loops in your representative if that’s faster.
What stays the same
Regardless of which group you’re in:
- Your Astro Deployments continue running with no interruption.
- Your Dags, schedules, run history, connections, and variables are preserved.
- API tokens, service accounts, and Deployment keys continue to work.
- Workspace permissions and User Roles persist.
- You work with the same Astronomer support team under the same SLAs.
Common questions
Will my Dags keep running during the migration?
Yes. Your Deployments, schedulers, workers, Dag history, connections, and variables are all unaffected.
Will my API keys and service accounts keep working?
Yes. API authentication is separate from SSO and doesn’t change.
What happens if I do nothing by July 1, 2026?
- If you’re on a PayGo plan, your Astro platform keeps running, but your Azure Marketplace subscription terminates. Without a credit card on file, billing moves to a manual state. Add a credit card at the Astronomer billing page to avoid any billing interruption. Resources are automatically spun down on July 15, 2026.
- If you’re on an annual contract, your account representative makes sure you land safely. Respond when they contact you.
Can I stay on the same Astro plan?
Yes, or you can move to a different plan. Your current pricing and plan terms are honored through the migration.
I bought directly through Astronomer. Does this affect me?
No.
