That's my main understanding as well. You're effectively outsourcing the hardware and a lot of software infrastructure and it will vary a lot based on what Saa

That's my main understanding as well. You're effectively outsourcing the hardware and a lot of software infrastructure and it will vary a lot based on what SaaS offerings you're using with the cloud provider. Personally, I tend to push for PostgreSQL primarily with near self-service containerized services for the applications and mostly will just leverage the cloud's queues and blob/s3 storage, which are easy enough to replace in a software stack. I'm not big on lock-in.