Native cloud application

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 Data grids (e.g. distributed in-memory data caches) Auto-scaling on any managed infrastructure

See also Cloud-native computing

References

Further reading

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