id: managed-service
name: Managed Service
tags:
- extension
short-description: >
  A software offering maintained by a third-party provider.
long-description: >
  Some examples of Managed Services are AWS EC2, Azure SQL Database, and GCP Pub/Sub, but they can be any software offering that can be used by an application.
  [Service Catalog](/docs/concepts/service-catalog/) provides a way to list, provision, and bind with Managed Services offered by {% glossary_tooltip text="Service Brokers" term_id="service-broker" %}.