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1. **Discontinuance of Services**. Subject to Section 2 (next), Apigee may discontinue any Product, Service, or any portion or feature for any reason at any time without liability to Customer.
2. **Deprecation Policy** . Apigee will announce if it intends to discontinue or make backwards incompatible changes to the Product, Services, or features specified at [Apigee deprecations and retirements](https://docs.apigee.com/release/deprecated-features). Apigee will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate and support those Products or Services versions and features without these changes for at least one year after that announcement, unless (as Apigee determines in its reasonable good faith judgment):  
   (i) required by law or third party relationship (including if there is a change in applicable law or relationship), or  
   (ii) doing so could create a security risk or substantial economic or material technical burden.  

   After that point, the Product, Service, or feature will be designated as Retired. For more information, see [Release Stages](https://docs.apigee.com/release/release-stages).
3. Any versions, features, or functionality of the Products or Services labeled "Early Access", "Alpha", or "Beta" are excluded from this Deprecation Policy.

The above policy is the "Deprecation Policy."

See [Apigee deprecations and retirements](https://docs.apigee.com/release/deprecated-features) for a
list of deprecated and retired features.

> [!NOTE]
> **Note:** **Deprecations in Private Cloud releases**
>
> Deprecation timelines usually follow Apigee Edge for Public Cloud release timelines.
> For example, if a
> deprecation announcement for feature "X" occurs on March 1, 2017, the feature is scheduled to
> be retired in an Edge for Public Cloud release around March 1, 2018.  
>
> Because Edge for Private Cloud releases include cloud features that were released or updated earlier,
> deprecation and retirement dates of those features in Edge for Private Cloud versions are slightly
> offset. For example, an Edge for Private Cloud release in May 2018 includes an Edge for Public
> Cloud release in which
> feature "X" was retired (around March 1, 2018). Therefore, feature "X" is retired in May 2018
> for Edge for Private Cloud.  
>
> Any deprecations and retirements that are specific to Edge for Private Cloud will be noted in the
> Edge for Private Cloud release notes and will follow a one-year timeline according to
> Edge for Private Cloud
> release cycles.