Speeding up Azure PowerShell scripting with Azure Resource Graph

I was recently working with Azure Graph using the Az.ResourceGraph PowerShell module to query resources across our Azure tenant to test the speed compared to traditional Azure PowerShell scripts I’ve written in the past. Let’s just say I will never go back to traditional Azure PowerShell for scenarios where Azure Graph is an option moving forward!  My original Azure PowerShell script took several minutes to finish looping through all of the our subscriptions to finally output a full list of VMs in the tenant. Simply replacing this section of the script with an Azure Graph query reduced the run time to seconds! 

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