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## Databases in the Hosted Cloud

Today you can use hosted MySQL/MariaDB/Percona Server for MySQL/PostgreSQL in several "cloud providers" as a database as a service (DBaaS). Learn the differences, the access methods and the level of control you have for the various public cloud offerings:  
 - Amazon RDS including Aurora  
 - Google Cloud SQL  
 - Rackspace OpenStack DBaaS  
 - Oracle Cloud's MySQL Service

The administration tools and ideologies behind each are completely different, and you are in a "locked-down" environment. Some considerations include:  
 - Different backup strategies  
 - Planning for multiple data centres for availability  
 - Where do you host your application?  
 - How do you get the most performance out of the solution?  
 - What does this all cost?  
 - Monitoring

Growth topics include:  
 - How do you move from one DBaaS to another?  
 - How do you move from a DBaaS to your own hosted platform?

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