MANAGING UPDATES ON VIRTUAL MACHINE SYSTEMS

The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining optimal index configurations for intelligently managing updates of virtual machines in an offline manner in a cloud computing system. For instance, a virtual machine (VM) update system can efficiently determine when to apply updates to virtual machines in an intelligent manner that prevents the updates from interfering with the deallocation of virtual machines. In addition, the VM update system can utilize the operating system (OS) disk image snapshots to automatically provide safeguards and ensure that updates do not degrade the performance of the virtual machines, or in the case of an update failure, that the virtual machines are restored to their previous state without the data loss.