MANAGED POSTGRESQL VS. SELF-HOSTED POSTGRESQL: KEY BENEFITS AND TRADE-OFFS

Summary from the TLDR DevOps newsletter

Managed PostgreSQL services reduce the operational tax of self-hosting by transferring infrastructure, patching, backups, high availability, and platform security responsibilities to the provider. Self-managed PostgreSQL remains preferable when organizations need deep control, specialized configurations, unsupported extensions, or have mature platform engineering and operational capabilities.