ACPI enabled BIOSes and UEFI support wake timers.

Windows uses this feature to wake the PC all spooky like so you don’t get to click the update button yourself.

While Windows doesn’t have an Arch wiki, the instructions for turning the automatic wake feature off are a web search away. You’ll need another web search to disable automatic updates though.

You dont need to use group policy.

Admin console: powercfg.exe /hibernate off

Now its off. Hybrid sleep is just a faster Hibernate.

Doing what, working on Azure? Also why not just run Linux locally?

Not even that. Go into Task Scheduler and disable the “Update Orchestrator” task. Problem solved.