Managed Databases

Benefits

• Easy setup
• Integration with existing Cloud Security methods (IAM Auth etc)
• Less human resources involved in setting them up
• Downtime SLA’s provided
• Easily configurable HA and scalability
• Automatic upgrades
• Out of the box backups
• Out of the box data encryption, which is a requirement for things like PCI

Disadvantages

• Vendor locked
• Less configurable compared to self hosted
• Higher running cost