The first thing to know about managed cloud services? It would certainly help to define the term as a starting point.
At some point in the not-so-distant past, a “cloud managed service” probably referred to something straightforward like paying a cloud provider to manage some VMs for you instead of running them yourself in your own datacenter. Buying compute or storage from a cloud provider is still a core use case, but it has been joined by a much broader set of tools and services.
A managed cloud service today could be anything from a fully managed service for building and training machine-learning models to a fully managed container platform.
