Cloud//storage//managed database

A database engine hosted and operated by a cloud provider. You get a connection string; they handle hardware, replication, backups, patching, scaling.

A database engine hosted and operated by a cloud provider. You get a connection string; they handle hardware, replication, backups, patching, scaling.

Examples: Cloudflare D1 (SQLite), Neon (PostgreSQL), PlanetScale (MySQL), Supabase (PostgreSQL), AWS RDS, Google Cloud SQL, DynamoDB (NoSQL)

The tradeoff: less control over tuning, potential vendor lock-in, but zero ops burden