By Richard Speed
Publication Date: 2026-02-03 12:59:00
Today is the day Azure Storage stops supporting versions 1.0 and 1.1 of Transport Layer Security (TLS). TLS 1.2 is the new minimum.
The change has been a long time coming. Microsoft warned users several years ago that February 3, 2026, was the cut-off date after which the deprecated standards would no longer be supported.
The minimum TLS version is enforced at the storage account level. Microsoft said: “If your storage account hosts other Azure Storage services (such as Azure Files, Queue Storage, or Table Storage), those services are also subject to the same TLS requirements.”
TLS is a security protocol for encrypted communications between applications and servers. In this case, when storage data is accessed via HTTPS, communications are encrypted using TLS.
