Who Needs SRE as a Service? Posted on : May 23 - 2022

There are a number of benefits — and risks — to outsourcing SRE instead of hiring your own site reliability engineers.

Want to take advantage of site reliability engineering, but without having to hire your own site reliability engineers?

SRE as a service — a relatively new type of offering in the outsourced IT services market, may be just what you need. Here's a look at how SRE as a service works, and why you may or may not want to use it.

What Is SRE as a Service?

SRE as a service, which is sometimes also called managed SRE, is a service through which a company delivers site reliability engineering support to another company using a managed services model.

What this means is that, with SRE as a service, you get the core services associated with site reliability engineering, such as the management of applications and infrastructure, in a way that minimizes downtime and performance risks. But instead of hiring your own engineers to do that work, which is the more common way to add SRE to an organization, you rely on a managed services provider to deliver the service for you. View More