What is cloud native?

An approach to building software designed for the cloud from the outset, making it easy to scale on demand, deploy automatically and update quickly.

In detail

Cloud-native applications are usually packaged in containers and deployed automatically; they can scale resources up and down with traffic and recover automatically from failures. This is different from “moving an old system onto a cloud server”, which only changes where it runs.

For example

During a promotion, order volume grows fivefold; the system automatically adds computing resources, scales back down once the campaign ends, and you pay only for actual usage.

How companies use it

When selecting or building a system, favor solutions that support containerized deployment and autoscaling.

Common misconceptions

Assuming that moving to the cloud makes you cloud native. Without changes to the system architecture, cloud costs and operational complexity may actually go up.

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