It took us almost 2 decades but finally the truly cloud native architectures are becoming a reality. Warp and Turbopuffer are some of the many other examples
Curious what your definition of cloud native is and why you think this is a new innovation. Storing your state in a bunch of files on a shared disk is a tale as old as time.
Not having to worry about the size of the disk for one. So much time in on that premise systems was about managing quotas for systems and users alongside the physical capacity.