With the publicly disclosed vulnerabilities referred to as “speculative execution side-channel attacks”, also known as Meltdown and Spectre, Microsoft has scheduled a quick maintenance window for all VMs running on Azure which are affected by this. As a CSP, you have a large list of customers, each with one or more subscription(s), each subscription with one or more VMs. To quickly check which VMs are scheduled for maintenance, doing this manually would take hours. Therefore, ASPEX…
