These compute resources can be rapidly provisioned with minimal effort and potentially no human interaction. However, traditional or legacy applications within enterprises were not designed to take advantage of the cloud computing model and architectures. And when organizations migrate their workloads into the cloud, they do so in a direct lift-and-shift pattern.

The applications are not being modified to maximize the efficiencies of cloud-native. Even newer green-field applications are often built following traditional application development design patterns. What you end up with when following this model is an “App in the Cloud” and not a “Cloud App”.

This approach results in applications that are not agile when the underlying infrastructure is agile and applications that cannot scale up and down rapidly based on business demands despite an underlying infrastructure that could scale and be elastic. Eventually if the applications cannot respond in a faster manner to changing business needs, the entire business suffers.

Cloud-native apps help prepare your business for new developments in the industry and information technology, allowing it to grow and change with evolving standards. Many organizations choose to invest in cloud computing technology because it offers more flexibility, space, and connectivity than local databases do. If you make the switch to the cloud for all of your system operations and data collection, you need applications and programs that are fully compatible and scalable with the cloud computing delivery model. This will allow all your business processes to run more smoothly so you can save valuable time and increase revenue.