You must use the cloud to be cloud native. Right? What is cloud native? Does it run on AWS or Azure? Wait, that sounds like an Oracle Cloud thing.

With cloud native, the adage is the same. Ask 10 people what cloud native is, you’ll get 9 different answers and one “huh?”. Let’s cut through the terms and see what cloud native is, how it can help us and really, if it even is for us. Maybe it isn’t – but let’s see if we can use some of the core tenants of being cloud native to add scale, resilience and rapid change to our systems.