---
title: Managed Service
id: managed-service
date: 2018-04-12
full_link: 
short_description: >
  A software offering maintained by a third-party provider.

aka: 
tags:
- extension
---
 A software offering maintained by a third-party provider.

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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" >}}.