Cloud-native versus cloud-ready – what is the difference?

Lots of people get confused between cloud-native software and cloud-ready software, so let's start by understanding what cloud-ready means. Traditional software running on virtual machines with no requirement for any specific hardware architecture can be migrated to a public or private cloud easily. This software can therefore be classified as cloud-ready software. The type of migration here is called shift and lift and is always the number-one choice for cloud migration projects.

Now let's go into what cloud-native software means. In short, cloud-native software or applications are those designed and built from the beginning to take advantage of the cloud computing model. In other words, they are born on the cloud from day one. Still not clear? No problem, let's dive deeper.

Let's take one aspect of software development practice, logging, as an example to better understand the difference between...