Since commercial cloud offerings went mainstream roughly 20 years ago, businesses have explored a variety of architectural strategies to optimize their use of it. From its earliest days, cloud computing promised to reduce costs and increase infrastructure flexibility and scalability. It would free businesses from having to run their own data centers and allow them to focus instead on their core business and innovation. Because of these expected benefits, many businesses began to adopt cloud-first strategies in the 2010s, hoping to accelerate cloud adoption. A growing number of cloud-native companies were launched, SaaS applications proliferated, and migration to the cloud…

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