What is cloud-native?
When applications are designed and architected to take advantage of the underlying IaaS and PaaS services supported by the cloud computing platform, they are called cloud-native applications.
This means building reliable system applications, such as five nines (99.999%), that run on a three nines (99.9%) infrastructure and application components. We need to design our application components to deal with failures. To handle such failures, we need a structured approach for scalability and availability. To support the entire scale of applications, all the pieces need to be automated.
Cloud adoption typically happens in a series of steps, where the enterprise starts exploring the services before they start building cloud-native ...
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