Digital Ocean Managed Databases

Wow, this is fantastic news! I think this opens the floodgates for lots of people who currently use Heroku, and would like to use simple VPS's without jumping into the headache that is AWS. Any word on pricing?

This is good news. I look forward to seeing the managed MySQL option.

I for one have always liked the simplicity of DO for hosting but I've never wanted to take on the full liability of self-rolling a DB server (and backups and replicas). So everything my company has I've put on heroku or azure. This has potential to be really significant as I'd wager there are a lot of folks in similar situations.

Thinking about moving from Linode to DO just for this. Makes so much sense.

Would be great to have something similar for Redis.

This is fantastic timing—I didn't feel like dealing with Postgres configuration/management, so I went with CockroachDB instead (which also forced me off a CPU core since I required more RAM).

Here's to hoping that receiving access doesn't take too long ^_^