Installing MySQL on a cloud-hosted server isn’t the only option for using MySQL in the cloud. More and more companies are offering the database itself as a cloud resource, dubbing it Database as a Service (DBaaS, or sometimes DaaS). This means that you can get a database in the cloud somewhere and leave the actual running of the service to others. Although we’ve spent most of our time examining IaaS in this chapter, the IaaS market is rapidly becoming commoditized, and we expect that in the future a lot of emphasis will shift to DBaaS instead. There are several DBaaS providers at the time of writing.