During your exploration of the cloud ecosystem, you may have heard the term ‘cloud-native’ thrown around a lot. It’s not without reason. Building a cloud-native architecture is the difference between lifting-and-shifting your on-premises design and redesigning your system to take advantage of the benefits of the cloud.

Starting on the cloud is an opportunity to take advantage of the flexibility, performance and diversity of the services made available to you. Through consideration of the system’s non-functional requirements, and the design options available on the cloud, a cloud-native system can be built.