What Is Cloud-Native Transformation?

Cloud-Native Transformation is the redesign of an application to fully use cloud capabilities, such as auto scaling and self healing, rather than simply running an unchanged application in the cloud.

Moving an application to the cloud without changing how it's built captures only a fraction of what cloud infrastructure can offer. A genuinely cloud native application can scale automatically under load, recover from failures without manual intervention, and run more cost efficiently, benefits that a rehosted application, built for a fixed server environment, was never designed to take advantage of.

We design cloud native applications around containerization, microservices, and managed cloud services from the outset, so the application can take full advantage of auto scaling, self healing, and elastic infrastructure rather than being constrained by an architecture built for traditional servers. This is typically the most ambitious point on the modernization spectrum, going beyond rehosting or replatforming, and is best suited to applications where scalability and resilience are genuinely business critical rather than a nice to have.