As I understand it, it's more scaling the company and managing the keys does become an issue if you handle those directly. Imagine explaining this stuff now to

As I understand it, it's more scaling the company and managing the keys does become an issue if you handle those directly. Imagine explaining this stuff now to a junior dev lol. As for a database's own encryption, I would trust it as much as you trust the organization programming that database. I manage keys with Azure since we are a Microsoft hybrid house.