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Open Source & Fully Managed: Aiven-Powered Databases on Akamai

Open Source & Fully Managed: Aiven-Powered Databases on Akamai

Peter Sari is a Product Marketing Manager at Akamai, dedicated to ensuring that technical audiences grasp the full benefits of cloud services on the world’s most distributed digital network.

There is virtually no application without a database in one form or another. User data and behavior, product information, and operational details all need to be stored and made available for retrieval and manipulation. There are different databases for different needs, but we can say the most broadly used ones are relational databases. MySQL and PostgreSQL are fairly easy to learn and to integrate into even the most complex applications.

But running a database isn’t just about spinning up an instance. It’s about managing upgrades, patching security vulnerabilities, scaling across regions, maintaining high availability, and troubleshooting at depth.…