[stingraycharles]

On the other hand, building everything "cloud native" can also enable some things that are very difficult to achieve otherwise. One thing that comes to mind is decoupling storage and compute, where you can use auto-scaling for the compute parts: great for OLAP / data-warehousing types of problems.

Regardless, I don't consider it merely a "useful starter" -- there are many mature businesses for which IT is not their core competency but still need to deal with complex architectures, and the cloud is very attractive to them.

[ok2938]

I have to yet have people tell their most pressing need is auto-scaling. It's not, it's a straw man - and true, if you are Google or Facebook - but 90% of companies won't need that at all.

[stingraycharles]

Of course it’s never the most pressing need, but it’s definitely a need in some circumstances. To completely disregard these use cases is not very useful.