Evaluate: Hosted or managed database? - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

- [Instructor] When deciding on how to host your database on AWS Cloud, you have two options: spinning up an Amazon EC2 instance and hosting your own database on your virtual server, or utilizing one of AWS's managed databases we just learned about in the previous video. The main consideration when deciding whether to go through the process of spinning up your own virtual machine, managing it, patching it, and operating it under your database, or utilizing a managed database like Amazon RDS, will come down to how much control you want over your infrastructure, how much you want to automate, and how much you want to save time or cost. The whole point of managed services is that you can utilize just the service part of the offering, like creating and managing a database, rather than having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure because AWS will be doing the grunt work for you. If you would like more control, flexibility, and choice in how your database is run and how the…