In this chapter, we discussed the inherent weaknesses of how legacy organizations devote their staff to produce systems. These weaknesses have become increasingly apparent as cloud technology has become a huge enabler to businesses. We then introduced a new model for developing, deploying, and maintaining systems—CND teams.

CND teams are at the heart of building mature cloud native architectures, since they have the agility, freedom, and focus to own their systems all up. They are not strained by CABs or oversight, as long as they maintain their APIs and SLAs advertised to other systems and teams.

We discussed the use of Cloud-Managed Service Providers, and how a Cloud MSP can be a stepping stone to greater cloud maturity. Furthermore, central to cloud native operations are building with IaC. We introduced examples of how to build, test, deploy, and maintain systems with IaC. Finally, we concluded with cloud native tools popular in the marketplace today to enable cloud native operations.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the unique differentiators of Amazon Web Services.