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I'm still unclear on if the VM here is on a machine they own/on their own premises? Or is it under someone else's control? "In the cloud" sounded like the latter but it sounds like the intention was the former?

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It means when you use the database service from AWS, they provision the machines and the replication and the database themselves.

Whereas you can get a machine on AWS and setup the database yourself.

They are talking about renting a VM from a cloud provider and setting up the DB themselves (example: EC2) vs renting a fully managed DB from a cloud service provider (example: RDS).

But if you're running on a VM from a cloud provider isn't your data still in the hands of a third party..??

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