Cloud Native Data System: Storage and Compute Separated Diagram

Cloud Native Traits

Designed for the cloud from the ground up, not just hosted VMs
Better performance per machine, faster recovery, elastic scale
Built on lower-level services such as object storage

Storage and Compute Separated

Object storage keeps large blocks; compute runs somewhere else
Local disks act as ephemeral caches, not as long-term storage
VMs can be replaced or resized without losing data

The Virtual Disk Trap

EBS-style disks emulate a block device over the network
Every I/O becomes a network call, sensitive to network glitches
Ground-up cloud designs avoid this overhead

Cost and Operations

Metered billing replaces capacity planning: it becomes financial planning
Multitenancy shares hardware across customers
Operations is not gone: it moves up to services and integrations