Quick Machine Recovery is available with the October security update and stays off by default. Its usefulness depends on a recovery environment that can reach Windows Update.
Backup restoration access is expected before full re-enrollment, subject to testing. Preserved archives do not establish that every Microsoft 365 connection is safe.
AWS’s new backend supports eager execution and compilation. Static shapes, cached builds and numerical restrictions matter as much as the device switch.
External key management is generally available; European access oversight is rolling out. The distinction matters before organisations plan a deployment.
The cloud decision is an operating plan, not a virtual-machine price contest. Compare dependencies, regional services, access boundaries and the people maintaining them.