Inc. and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ Why Spring Cloud? • In general, cloud native apps are a good thing, just not easy • It is easy for big companies to put forth the resources to succeed with Cloud Native, but what about the little guys? • Why do we have to reinvent the wheel each time someone wants to build a Cloud Native app? • Follow the Spring Boot model of providing useful defaults for Cloud Native apps with the ability to easy configure them • Cloud Agnostic 6