# Native cloud application

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A '''native cloud application''' (NCA) is a type of computer software that natively utilizes services and infrastructure from cloud computing providers such as [Amazon EC2](/source/Amazon_EC2), [Force.com](/source/Force.com), or [Microsoft Azure](/source/Microsoft_Azure). NCAs exhibit a combined usage of the three fundamental technologies:
* Computational grid - loosely, e.g. [MapReduce](/source/MapReduce)<ref name="mapreduce">{{Cite web|url=http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html|title=MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters - OSDI'04: Sixth Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation, San Francisco, CA, December, 2004|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217065533/http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.html|archivedate=2008-12-17}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=November 2009}}
* [Data grid](/source/Data_grid)s (e.g. distributed in-memory [data cache](/source/data_cache)s)
* Auto-scaling on any managed infrastructure

==See also==
*[Cloud-native computing](/source/Cloud-native_computing)

==References==
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== Further reading ==

* Morris, Kief (2020). ''[https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/books/infrastructure-as-code-2nd-edition Infrastructure as Code: Dynamic Systems for the Cloud Age Second Edition]''. O'Reilly Media. {{ISBN|978-1-0981-1462-6}}
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