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, Force.com, or Microsoft Azure. NCAs exhibit a combined usage of the three fundamental technologies:

• Computational grid - loosely, e.g. 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}}{{Failed verification|date=November 2009}}
• Data grids (e.g. distributed in-memory data caches)
• Auto-scaling on any managed infrastructure