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Understanding the Value of Cloud-Native Architecture

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About This Course

Gartner projects that more than 85% of enterprises will adopt cloud-native technologies by 2025. But what does that actually mean — and why does it matter enough to justify the significant investment required? This course provides solution architects and IT decision-makers with a clear-eyed understanding of cloud-native architecture’s value proposition and the genuine trade-offs involved.

What You’ll Learn

  • What cloud-native architecture actually means and what distinguishes it from “cloud-hosted”
  • The specific business and technical benefits cloud-native provides
  • The real costs and organizational changes cloud-native requires
  • How to evaluate whether cloud-native is the right approach for a given workload
  • How to make the case for cloud-native investment to skeptical stakeholders
  • Patterns for incremental cloud-native adoption

Who This Is For

Solution architects, enterprise architects, and IT decision-makers who need to understand, evaluate, and advocate for cloud-native architecture in their organizations.