This document summarizes key concepts related to cloud native enterprises. It begins by defining characteristics of cloud computing according to NIST, including on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, and rapid elasticity. It then discusses how these characteristics impact traditional IT operations models and require operations teams, security, and finances to be rethought. The document concludes that cloud native enterprises require new approaches like agile practices, minimum viable products, and decentralization of responsibilities.

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3. Cloud Native Enterprises
An Organizational View on the Disrupting Cloud

4. NIST Cloud Characteristics*
• On-demand Self-Service
• Data-Center consumerization
• Broad Network Access
• Heterogeneous connectivity
• Resource Pooling
• Location independence
• Rapid Elasticity
• Extreme scalability
• Measured Service
• Utilities-model for billing
* https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-145.pdf

5. On-demand Self-Service
• Traditional operations processes (ITIL) do no longer apply.
• Operations team no longer needed for operations tasks
• Extreme Separation of Concerns.
• Change/Run is no longer a natural fit
• Full-stack Governance
• Actively maintaining standards, policies and frameworks

6. Broad Network Access
• Always Connected
• Mobility is finally an option
• Always Accessible
• Security by design a business concern

7. Resource Pooling
• OSI layers 1-4 are off limits
• No reliance on anything in the first 4 layers of the OSI model
• Sharing = Caring
• By design resources are shared across consumers

8. Rapid Elasticity
• Steep growth curves supported
• Business and IT can keep up
• Overnight success ready
• Scalability is a business concern

9. Measured Service
• CAPEX vs. OPEX
• Financial planning
• Elastic financing
• ‘Death by a thousand cuts’

10. Cloud Native Enterprise
• Agile practices
• Build-Measure-Learn
• Lean Startup
• Innovation Accounting
• Product-Platform thinking
• MVP, Validated Learning
• User centric design
• API-First
• DevOps and BizDevOps
• Decentralized responsibilities
• Value driven

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