An acronym for availability, manageability, performance, recoverability and security: the five design qualities used to sort non-functional requirements and to weigh up trade-offs between design decisions.
Also called availability, manageability, performance, recoverability, security.
In the Ultra Transcenders books
Each book explains AMPRS in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.
Related terms
- Advanced Analytics
Adds device query, device scopes, a device timeline, anomaly detection, resource performance and battery health on top of endpoint analytics. It comes with the Intune Suite and with Intune Plan 2.
- Agent management rules
Admins use these to handle agents in large numbers from Agents > Settings. A rule might push a template's security policies onto existing agent instances, or automatically decline publishing requests that have waited too long.
- Agent mode
Lets GitHub Copilot chat take several steps towards a goal, running tools and queries as you approve them. Don't treat that approval as a security boundary in SSMS 22.7 or later: every query uses the login's own permissions anyway.
- AHV Traffic Mirroring
Sends a copy of the packets on chosen AHV host ports to the vNIC of a receiving VM, so they can be inspected for security, troubleshooting or compliance reasons.
- AKS Automatic
A way of running AKS in which nodes, scaling, security, monitoring and upgrades come preconfigured and are looked after for you. Microsoft suggests it for most new production clusters.
- alarm rule
Each alarm carries one or more of these. A rule states what fires the alarm, at which severity, and whether to suppress it; it may watch events, states or performance counters, and consecutive rules can be joined using AND/OR logic.
- Alert Triage Agent
A preview Security Copilot agent that sorts DLP alerts for you, weighing the risk each one carries and placing it in groups like Needs attention or Less urgent. Running it uses security compute units.
- Alert tuning
Formerly called alert suppression. Defender XDR lets you write rules so that alerts with matching evidence, for example a given file, process or IP address, are hidden or closed automatically, which is handy for known activity like security testing; Microsoft ships some built-in rules too.