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 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a part of Amazon.com's cloud-computing platform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), that allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 encourages scalable deployment of ...

, Force.com, or Microsoft Azure. NCAs exhibit a combined usage of the three fundamental technologies: * Computational grid - loosely, e.g.

MapReduce MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating big data sets with a parallel, distributed algorithm on a cluster. A MapReduce program is composed of a ''map'' procedure, which performs filtering ...

* Data grids (e.g. distributed in-memory

data cache A CPU cache is a hardware cache used by the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer to reduce the average cost (time or energy) to access data from the main memory. A cache is a smaller, faster memory, located closer to a processor core, whi ...

s) * Auto-scaling on any managed infrastructure

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