Cloudfoundry Sharing Service Instances and user provided service differences

Question

I want to share a DB(PostgreSQL) service across the spaces in same cf Org.

I came across two options

1. User-Provided Service Instances (https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/devguide/services/user-provided.html)
2. Sharing Service Instance(https://docs-cloudfoundry-staging.cfapps.io/devguide/services/sharing-instances.html)

The shared service instances say, it improves the security, auditing, and provides a more intuitive user experience.

Can anyone throw some more detailed light on the advantages and disadvantages of both?

Answer 1

User provided services can do more than be used to share services, sharing services across org/spaces is just one use case for user provided services.

If you're looking to share services & your service broker supports it, you should use that option over user provided services.

User provided services are good for cases where the broker doesn't support sharing services or where you want to do something totally different like create a service where no broker exists.

Hope that helps!