# 05 – Cloud Databases

Cloud providers offer **managed databases** so you focus more on data and less on servers.

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## 📌 Overview

- [ ] Understand the value of **managed services**
- [ ] Learn common patterns across AWS, GCP, and Azure
- [ ] Know when to choose **PaaS databases** vs self-managed

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## ☁️ Providers

### [[AWS]]

- [ ] Learn core services: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Redshift
- [ ] Understand basics of deployment, scaling, backups

### [[GCP]]

- [ ] Learn Cloud SQL, Spanner, Bigtable, BigQuery
- [ ] Understand globally consistent systems like Spanner

### [[Azure]]

- [ ] Learn Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Synapse
- [ ] Map workloads to appropriate services

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## 🔗 Connections

- Relate to [[02 - RDBMS]] and [[03 - NoSQL]] – many managed DBs are those engines
- Connect with [[04 - Big Data]] through cloud data warehouses and lakes
- Tie into [[08 - Modern Databases]] for globally-distributed SQL