Beginning April 12, 2027, you won't be able to create new instances of

## Deprecate Deprecated Beginning April 12, 2027, you won't be able to create new instances of Cloud SQL for SQL Server 2017\. Starting on October 13, 2027, SQL Server 2017 will reach end of life (EOL) and Microsoft will stop releasing[security updates](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/end-of-support/sql-server-end-of-support-overview?view=sql-server-ver17#understand-the-sql-server-lifecycle). Cloud SQL for SQL Server will stop supporting SQL Server 2017 after this date. For more information, see[Database versions and version policies](https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/sqlserver/db-versions).