Speaking for myself, I tried managed solutions at the major cloud providers. Way overpriced and not that performant. I then decided to go back to running my ow

Speaking for myself, I tried managed solutions at the major cloud providers. Way overpriced and not that performant. I then decided to go back to running my own database but this time in a docker container on k3s on bare metal. A few hours fiddling with the config upon launch and that's it. Rock solid, way more performant because I can tweak the config to my specific needs. In the 2 years I have been running a MySQL server on k3s, I have about 60-90 seconds of down time. Caused by 3 separate instances where the db became unresponsive and k3s rebooted it. Most likely just some tweaks i need to make with the health check timeouts. It has been more set it and forget than a managed solution and about 20% the cost.