> applications being built from the ground up to dynamically allocate resources using cloud providers APIs directly If that indeed is what cloud native means,

> applications being built from the ground up to dynamically allocate resources using cloud providers APIs directly If that indeed is what cloud native means, it sounds interesting. But the problem is that all these APIs and especially "managed" services are super proprietary and you'll vendor lock yourself pretty hard. But I suppose that ship has sailed a long time ago.