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Recommend an appropriate database offering to meet your needs

Recommend an appropriate database offering to meet your needs

- Welcome back. This is lesson 1.5. Recommend an appropriate database offering based on requirements. Okay, before we get into some of the recommendations, let's quickly review the different cloud service types, focusing specifically on infrastructure as a service and platform as a service. Akin, again, control granularity, how much control you want over the environment. In infrastructure as a service. The cloud provider is responsible for maintaining the infrastructure portion of the stack, including the hardware network, network connectivity, and so on. In a cloud service environment, infrastructure as a service places the largest share of responsibility on you as you're responsible for everything else, including installation and configuration patches, maintenance updates, and so on. But infrastructure service is the most flexible of the cloud services as it provides maximum level of control over your cloud resources, with platform as a service as we discussed earlier in a previous…

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