Maintenance Plan folder missing in SQL Managed Instance (via VM) Accessing our new SQL Managed Instance via an Azure VM/SSMS, the Maintenance Plan folder is missing from the Object Explorer pane.  Reading other posts (that all relate to other versions of SQL Server) I've checked I have the valid permissions:

Is there a way to enable maintenance plans in SQLMI?
If not (assuming that SQLMI doesn't use maintenance plans), what is the modern day Azure equivalent to perform automated backups/deletion/index maintenance?
Please refer to this other thread on DBA.StackExchange about how to schedule maintenance of indexes and statistics. As you can read on that thread you can use Ola Hallengren's maintenance scripts, and schedule them using SQL Agent on Azure Managed Instance.
You can use also Azure Automation to schedule any maintenance task as described on this article.