Cloud-native is difficult. Actually, it’s not, the saying is borrowed from ‘Life is difficult’, the opening lines of M. Scott Peck’s seminal human psyche analysis book The Road Less Traveled. Cloud actually isn’t inherently difficult at all because so many of the aspects of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model of cloud computing are provided in automated, autonomously controlled – often accelerated and optimized – packages of consumable flexible IT power.