Moving to fully managed database services
If you run a legacy database and analytics infrastructure on-premises or self-managed in the cloud (on EC2), then provisioning, operating, scaling, and managing databases is tedious, time-consuming, and expensive. You have to worry about operational efficiency issues such as
- Hardware & software installation, configuration, patching, and backups.
- Performance & availability issues
- Scalability issues such as capacity planning and scaling clusters for computing and storage
- Security & compliance issues. Such as network isolation, encryption, and compliance programs such as PCI, HIPAA, FedRAMP, ISO, and SOC.
Rather than solving the above issue, you want to spend time innovating and building new applications and not managing infrastructure.
As shown below diagram with AWS managed databases, you never have to over or under-provision infrastructure to accommodate application growth, intermittent spikes, and performance requirements and incur...
