Cloud Native Architectures

Cloud services – vendor versus self-managed

In the early days of the cloud, the foundational infrastructure services were reason enough to develop new workloads there. However, as those services matured and the cloud vendors quickened their pace of innovation, they began to develop other services that were managed versions of existing software customers had been using. The reason for this is simple: the goal of the large cloud providers is to innovate on behalf of the customer so that the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing environments is reduced, freeing up time and resources for business requirements. One of the early areas where this approach was used successfully was with databases. The large cloud vendors will have managed versions ...