This article analyzes the efficiency of the new paradigm for IT, Cloud-Native computing, by going through 7 key characteristics.

Back in 2014, I asked why organizations should bother to implement cloud when cloud washing would suffice. Cloud computing was still a mystery to many enterprises at the time, so maybe signing up for something that vendors called Cloud, but really wasn’t, was the best move.

Putting the ‘washing’ suffix on some technology trend or another has been around longer than the cloud, of course.

Whenever some new whiz-bang shiny thing catches the eye of enterprise buyers, vendors are only too happy to slap the fancy new label on their older gear, in hopes of signing up a few unsuspecting customers.

Today, cloud-native computing is so shiny that no one can resist it. One would expect, therefore, that there would be plenty of cloud-native-washing to go around.

To be sure, many vendors are following the same ‘label first, implement later’ pattern that characterized earlier washings. However, there’s more to the cloud-native-washing story than meets the eye.

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