Native cloud application explained

A native cloud application (NCA) is a type of computer software that natively utilizes services and infrastructure from cloud computing providers such as Amazon EC2, Force.com, or Microsoft Azure. NCAs exhibit a combined usage of the three fundamental technologies:

• Computational grid - loosely, e.g. MapReduce^[1]
• Data grids (e.g. distributed in-memory data caches)
• Auto-scaling on any managed infrastructure

Further reading

• Morris, Kief (2020). Infrastructure as Code: Dynamic Systems for the Cloud Age Second Edition. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 9781098114626, 1098114620.

Notes and References

1. Web site: MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters - OSDI'04: Sixth Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation, San Francisco, CA, December, 2004. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20081217065533/http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html. 2008-12-17.