Google Cloud Platform is rounding out its stable of managed database services as it on boards more large enterprises.
Managed database services are increasingly popular as enterprises aim to abstract the underlying infrastructure and connect with databases via application programming interfaces.
Dominic Preuss, director of product management at Google Cloud, said that the latest additions to the database roster cover the four largest asks from enterprise customers.
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"Every enterprise has many database technologies as well as programming languages. These companies are replatforming on more managed services," said Preuss. "We are laser focused on enterprise use cases."
Managed database services are offered by rivals Amazon Web Services, which has an extensive lineup, as well as Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud and a bevy of others.
The managed database additions include:
Preuss said that Google Cloud Platform chose those aforementioned database services due to requests by large enterprises, its own services unit and systems integrators. He added that Google Cloud will continue to add database managed services.
"There are other areas we're investigating," said Preuss. "Whatever enterprises are asking for we will go build. This extension gets us to the majority of use cases."