The CTO has issued the decree: “We are moving to the cloud!” Great, so now what do we do? When it comes to migrating from on-premise to the cloud, there are many factors to consider and decisions that need to be made. First (and probably most important) on that list: managed DBaaS or setup and manage our own infrastructure?
Type of Cloud
Managed DBaaS options are great but come with some limitations. The main two questions that should be considered here are around staff/experience and current architecture/database design. In cases where there is a very limited database (or operations) team, a DBaaS is a great choice. Much of the operational infrastructure is already in place with general best practices in place. However, a big tradeoff comes around flexibility. In cases where the current infrastructure is complex (for reasons right or wrong), a DBaaS is definitely the wrong choice as you will be …
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