The impact of IT and cloud automation

Automated Database operations has grown since 2009, following Amazon Web
Services introduction of AWS RDS, providing automated and managed database as a
service. Microsoft Azure launched a similar automated database as a service in 2010,
with SQL Azure, providing automated backups, with geo-replication and high
availability. The introduction of docker (software) containers has enhanced support
for fast delivery of containerized database instances, and both Amazon Web Services
and Microsoft Azure have enhanced automated support for containers in their
respective services.

Third party support for database container images has grown, including MongoDB,
Postgres, MySQL from Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server from Microsoft, and from
independent port's of docker (software) from Windocks [1]