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Chapter 5

7 Benefits of the Cloud Native

As you can imagine the possibilities of Cloud Native development are nearly endless and easily adapt to all industries, but let’s break down the key benefits for your business.

Reduced Time to Market.

Traditional applications usually take a lot of time to be built, especially when compared to their Cloud Native counterparts, which ensure maximum flexibility by continuously deploying as you go and thus become the key differentiator between an innovative organization and their competition.

Reduced Cost.

Cloud Native is very cost effective, through the pay-as-you-go system, which means you will only pay for the resources you actually consume.

Improved Customer Experiences.

Building a great customer experience requires you to ship new features faster and keep iterating continuously, which is one of the core characteristics of Cloud Native development. On top, your clients will technically be able to access your app from any internet ready device.

Ease of Management.

Serverless platforms like Azure let you upload code in the form of functions and the platform runs those functions for you. In other words, infrastructure management becomes nearly effortless for your IT Teams.

Reliable Systems and Reduced Down-Time.

When failures happen, the down time and in turn the costs, for legacy applications can be immense. With Cloud Native apps an incident can easily be isolated, which guarantees higher uptime and further improves the user experience.

Scalability.

Cloud scalability refers to the ability to increase or decrease IT resources as needed to meet changing demand. Scalability is one of the hallmarks of the Cloud Native approach and one of the primary drivers of its exploding popularity with businesses.

Increased Security.

The security of data is a significant concern, and the Cloud might seem less secure than storing data at local storage but since Cloud Native apps are built from smaller services, each secured separately, their data is actually more secure than before.