What does a cloud provider mean when they sell managed Postgres?
I was looking into how to build database architecture for an app and trying to decide between self-hosting Postgres or paying for a managed service. Most call their database managed, but vendors may have completely different definitions for the word “managed”.
Some providers just patch the OS and leave all the failover, capacity planning, and scaling decisions to engineers. If there is a traffic spike and a team has to manually resize the compute, then it is not actually scaling itself. I’ve started looking at serverless options that dynamically scale to zero when idle and handle the patching, backups, and intra-region failover automatically.
If you’re running managed databases in production, what tasks did you expect the provider to handle that you ended up doing yourself?