This document discusses enabling native integration of the NoSQL database HBase with cloud providers. It covers topics like reducing total cost of ownership through automatic scaling and storage optimizations, security simplification using JWT instead of Kerberos, high availability through techniques like multi-availability zones, and benchmark results comparing performance of HBase on cloud storage like S3 versus on-premises block storage. Benchmark results showed higher throughput and lower latencies for most workloads when using cloud storage compared to on-premises block storage. A cost case study also showed monthly costs could be 26.8% lower using cloud storage with ephemeral caches versus block storage for a 50TB read/write workload on AWS.