A cloud-native approach offers several significant benefits over legacy and hybrid architectures. Application deployment. In a legacy or hybrid cloud architecture, users around the world may be working with different software versions because of differences in the local application infrastructure.

This deployment also creates differences in capabilities and user experience, which in turn creates confusion for the users’ work and increased demands on IT for training and support. With a cloud-native architecture, all users access a single and current software version.

Users are able to work together easily and productively, managers and executives can have greater confidence in application data and functionality, and IT resources can be redirected to more strategic projects. Additionally, all customers benefit from improvements to the cloud system at the same time.