Managed Services

Since 2015, there’s been a movement in cloud computing to transition developers away from manually provisioning servers to using managed services that abstract away the concept of servers.

Benefits

The main benefit of this new paradigm is that developers can write code in a staging environment and then push code to production with minimal concerns about operational overhead. The infrastructure required to match the required workload can be automatically scaled as needed. This enables both engineers and data scientists to be more active in DevOps, because much of the operational concerns of the infrastructure are managed by the cloud provider.

	Infrastructure	Operations	Development
Managed	❌	❌	✔️
Hosted	❌	✔️	✔️

• ✔️: managed by the developer
• ❌: not managed by the developer