ScaleGrid

Pros: Setup is a breeze.
Easily add firewall rules
Easily add or remove users.
Fast support and possibility to bring your own aws cloud etc when you are really scaling etc.

Cons: - it's a bit costly for minimum plan being 10$
It is costly for starters but if you are about to scale it makes sense to use it.

Overall: I was totally stuck with mysql deployments on vps servers and then adding custom firewall rules to be able to access it from mysql workbench on my personal desktop and all the stuff with backups etc seemed tricky.
With scalegrid I had a trustable system which gave me a database quickly which I can depend on and keep working on my game rather than wondering about scaling db.

Pros: So simple to setup and manage our databases. We've luckily not had to use the automated failover in production, but tested it rigorously before deploying. It couldn't be easier to manage and setup. The alert system is amazing as well.

Cons: I honestly don't have a single con for moving to ScaleGrid. It was so simple.

Overall: Moving our database to a service was a large move for us. It's the lifeblood of our company. Sales and Customer Service were amazing with all the questions and testing we had before proceeding. Now that we're all setup, I sleep much better at night knowing our database solution is in capable hands!

Pros: I am a scientist who has no formal training in computer science or databases. I needed to create a MySQL database to store a large amount of training data for a machine learning project. I found AWS to be overly complicated and overpowered for my needs. ScaleGrid offered an affordable solution with a web interface and very responsive support. I highly recommend them.

Cons: It would be helpful to have a bit more documentation about how to manage backups, get more disk space, and use the web console. It is all probably self-evident to database gurus, but for non-experts like me, documentation would be very helpful.

Overall: I am planning to continue using the product at least through the end of the year. I would use it again for future projects as well. I think this is a great product.