If we’re talking in the context of an organisation which has or is considering having a devops team and / or a platform team, like in the article then yeah i agree you’re not going to be apt installing a db.
There will be some mandated platform choices so that the org has a fighting chance of managing complexity and knowledge/skills within the db platform team.
I’d expect you’ll have to specify in a web form or maybe an api call that you need a document db / oltp / olap and you want it in region A and of size medium and you want an indefinite expiry date on this lease. I wouldn’t expect to have much more freedom than that, e.g. backups, point in time restore options etc will all be standardised. I’d expect to be immediately given an appropriate pre-built instance that had been provisioned and kept warm waiting for the next request of a db of these specs.
That allows the developer minimal friction but also allows the db platform team to say we provision a postgres for document db use cases not a mongodb because it simplifies platform ownership (and we just mail a link to some docs explaining how to use a postgres as a document db to the user account that requested the instance).
There will be some mandated platform choices so that the org has a fighting chance of managing complexity and knowledge/skills within the db platform team.
I’d expect you’ll have to specify in a web form or maybe an api call that you need a document db / oltp / olap and you want it in region A and of size medium and you want an indefinite expiry date on this lease. I wouldn’t expect to have much more freedom than that, e.g. backups, point in time restore options etc will all be standardised. I’d expect to be immediately given an appropriate pre-built instance that had been provisioned and kept warm waiting for the next request of a db of these specs.
That allows the developer minimal friction but also allows the db platform team to say we provision a postgres for document db use cases not a mongodb because it simplifies platform ownership (and we just mail a link to some docs explaining how to use a postgres as a document db to the user account that requested the instance).