The Cloud-Native Frontier Is At The Edge
Cloud Native Now, Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025
When we first started talking about "the cloud," the mental image was simple: Hyperscale providers, massive data centers, and centralized infrastructure that promised elastic capacity and lower costs.
But as cloud-native has matured, that picture is no longer complete. The frontier of cloud-native innovation isn't just in AWS regions or Azure data centers - it's at the edge. And increasingly, it's in hybrid deployments that blend public cloud, on-prem and everything in between.
And there's a new player at this frontier: WebAssembly (WASM). Once viewed as a browser technology, WASM is now proving to be a natural fit for edge workloads and distributed cloud-native applications.