Automatically provisioning and managing secure database resources in a cloud computing environment

A computerized method of automatically provisioning and managing secure database resources in a cloud computing environment, the method comprising:

• provisioning, by a server computing device, a plurality of virtual computing resources in the cloud computing environment using one or more resource templates;
• creating, by the server computing device, a database instance in each of one or more of the virtual computing resources, including attaching the database instance to a physical disk drive;
• integrating, by the server computing device, the database instances and the virtual computing resources in the cloud computing environment with an identity authentication service provided by a first computing resource of the server computing device;
• configuring, by the server computing device, the database instances in two or more of the virtual computing resources to synchronize data between the database instances;
• monitoring, by the server computing device, each of the plurality of virtual computing resources using a monitoring service provided by a second computing resource of the server computing device, including determining that one of the virtual computing resources has failed and redirecting network traffic from the failed virtual computing resources to another one of the plurality of virtual computing resources;
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• updating, by the server computing device, one or more of the database instances by detaching the associated physical disk drive from the database instance, deleting the virtual computing resource that contains the database instance, provisioning a new virtual computing resource using a different resource template, creating a new database instance in the new virtual computing resource, and re-attaching the physical disk drive to the new database instance.