Fully managed databases

Fully managed databases reduce the need for manual effort and lower the costs involved in administering your databases. They also allow your teams to focus more on productive areas of work, contributing to your business. In a fully managed database, the provider takes care of infrastructure provisioning, maintenance, routine updates, scalability, backup, recovery, replication, latency, availability, security, privacy, regulatory settings, and administration in a very self-sufficient and cost-effective way, as opposed to self-managed databases, where all of these need to be done by the database administration teams.

Some examples of self-managed databases are the non-cloud version of MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Maria DB, Oracle, and IBM DB2. Some of these databases have equivalent managed cloud services..