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Managed service

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, managed service means: A cloud service where the provider handles setup, patching, backups and scaling, so you only use it and do not manage the servers underneath.

In Turkish: yönetilen hizmet, yönetilen servis

How it is used

Common examples are managed databases (Amazon RDS, Azure SQL Database, Cloud SQL), managed Kubernetes and managed queues. Teams choose a managed service to reduce operations work, at a higher price per unit.

Example sentences

  1. We switched to a managed service for PostgreSQL, so backups and failover are no longer our problem.

  2. A managed service costs more per hour, but it saves us a full-time engineer.

Common collocations

  • fully managed service
  • managed database
  • managed Kubernetes
  • use a managed service
  • PaaSShort for platform as a service: a ready-made platform where you only upload your code, and the provider runs the servers, operating system and runtime for you.
  • serverlessDescribes a way of running code in which the provider starts and scales servers automatically for each request, and you pay only for the time your code actually runs.
  • cloud providerA company that owns large data centers and rents computing, storage, networking and other services to customers over the internet.
  • shared responsibility modelThe idea that security in the cloud is split: the provider protects the data centers, hardware and core services, and the customer protects their own data, settings and access.

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