A managed service refers to Google Cloud platform resources and services that Google manages. Managed services include: ● Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Manages the setup, scaling, upgrade, storage configuration and network part of your Kubernetes clusters. ● Google Cloud Dedicated Hosts: Dedicated physical servers  hosted by Google in Google data centres. Google manages the  hardware, networking and basic administrative tasks. ● Google Cloud Databases (SQL, Spanner, Bigtable): Fully managed non-relational and relational databases. Google handles the configuration, scaling, software patching, backup/restore and high availability. ● Google Cloud Load Balancing: Distributes network traffic across your instances. Google manages load balancers, backend services, health checks, SSL certificates and access control. ● Google Cloud Networking: Covers Virtual Private Clouds  (VPCs), subnets, routes, network interfaces, gateway, peered  networks and Network Load Balancers. Google administers the network to ensure availability, performance and disaster tolerance.