Enterprises are increasingly adopting multi-cloud strategies for reasons such as operational resilience, compliance, and avoiding vendor lock-in, as well as for some unexpected non-technical reasons. At RoachFest23, Fortinet's Director of Software Development, Louis Jia, shared FortiSASE's journey from a self-hosted CockroachDB to CockroachDB's managed services, highlighting the challenges and benefits of such a migration. Initially launched in two AWS regions, the self-hosted setup posed availability and management challenges, leading to the decision to switch to a fully managed service. This transition involved collaboration with Cockroach Labs' engineers and was completed smoothly, even before the introduction of dedicated migration tools. The managed service offered FortiSASE enhanced performance, simplified upgrades, seamless regional expansion, and improved database reliability, ultimately allowing the team to focus on their core security offerings without being bogged down by database management. This migration has led to zero downtime since the switch, providing Jia and his team with peace of mind and better operational efficiency.