As public clouds are commoditized, the public cloud vendors are
increasingly moving to higher margin and stickier managed
services. In the early days of the public cloud, renting compute
and storage was unique, exciting, sticky and profitable. It has
quickly become a commodity. In order to provide differentiation,
maintain margins and create barriers to customer exit, against
increasing competition, the cloud is moving toward a collection
of managed services.
Public clouds are growing beyond simple compute instances to
platform as a service (PaaS). PaaS is then comprised of various
modules, including database as a service (DaaS). In the early
days you rented a number of compute instances, loaded your
database software and you were the DBA managing all
aspects of that database. Increasingly, public clouds are moving
toward a DaaS model, where the cloud customer writes to a simple
database API and the cloud provider is the DBA. …
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