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Do You Need a Managed Database?

We have become used to moving applications and data center infrastructure into the cloud. Some even find the experience is as seamless and pain-free as cloud providers promise.

For all these reasons, it becomes less a question of moving to the cloud, as moving to a managed cloud database service.

Customers generally want to run their data wherever their application is already deployed, Livyatan said, to ensure the lowest possible latency and to avoid potential data-transit costs between clouds.

“Then your application can stay roughly the same, your data model can stay roughly the same, and we’re “only” talking about moving data from place to place.”