Managed, unmanaged, and database as a service
Handling data on the cloud involves storage and access, and this is enabled using databases. It is not a one-size-fits-all choice. There are several options and criteria to make the right database choice for your application and product, which we discussed in detail in Chapter 1, Data, Databases, and Design of this book. In this section, let us look at the managed and unmanaged types of database categories.
Managed databases
When your team needs to focus more on creating an application and product rather than focusing on operations and maintenance, you need a solution or a service that gives you those capabilities by shifting the infrastructure, maintenance, and latency requirements to the cloud provider. That is exactly what a managed database provides.
Managed databases provide users the ability to maintain clusters, routine updates, scalability, backup, recovery, replication, latency, availability, and administration in a very...
