Modern application development is an approach that enables you to innovate rapidly by using cloud-native architectures with loosely coupled microservices, managed databases, AI, DevOps support, and built-in monitoring. Meet your customers' changing needs with applications that provide highly personalized experiences and change dynamically to respond to events in real time.
Deliver consistent quality and performance at any scale using fully managed databases with built-in high availability, point-in-time backup, and single-digit millisecond latency. Build more securely by integrating controls into your DevOps processes. Increase data security with advanced threat detection and data protection.
Pay only for what you need and offload maintenance by using on-demand tools and serverless compute and databases. Reduce development costs with low-code solutions. Get proactive and actionable cost optimization and resource management recommendations—including when to use free-tier and spot instances.
Get up and running on any project in minutes with fully configured, secure, cloud-hosted development environments. Collaborate in real time on code reviews and pair programming with well-governed identity and access. Automate code-to-cloud workflows and monitor app health and performance before problems happen.
Cloud-native architecture enables you to act on new ideas more often, respond to changing needs faster, and run resilient and scalable applications more easily. By packaging application code and dependencies in containers and deploying them as microservices, you increase architectural portability to deploy applications across environments with little or no modification. Changes can be made to individual components with lower risk to the whole application.
Kubernetes helps you manage the containers at scale. Increase release velocity and operational scalability by using DevOps processes and tools to automate build, test, and delivery of the microservices.
Infuse AI into both the user interface and business logic application layers to enhance user experiences and deepen business insights. Engage audiences globally by adding translation, chatbots, and voice for AI-enabled user interfaces. Enhance business logic with AI for scenarios like search, personalization, document processing, image analytics, anomaly detection, and speech analytics.
Modern application development enables developers of all skill levels to easily add AI capabilities to their apps with prebuilt and customizable AI models for speech, vision, language, and decision-making.
Modern integrations using out-of-the-box connectors and APIs help you to be more productive, access data easily, and keep your disparate systems up to date in real time. Connectors are ready-made integrations that make it easier to connect apps with software as a service, systems, and data anywhere—on-premises or in the cloud.
Lightweight APIs enable integration with protocols like REST and OAuth. They simplify data retrieval and sharing between services without having to use a heavier message bus. Tap into APIs that already exist in an enterprise and expose them securely through a gateway with hybrid capabilities to access APIs at the edge, on-premises, or in other clouds.
Deliver personalized, responsive digital experiences without handling complex database infrastructure and security management. Fully managed, cloud-based databases provide limitless scale, low-latency access to rich data, and advanced data protection—all built in, regardless of languages or frameworks. Choose the data models, APIs, storage structures, and deployment options that best fit your application patterns.
Elastic and always-on databases support business continuity and improve responsiveness to the changing environment. They help operations comply with a consistent availability and latency goal without conducting the heavy lifting tasks of database management—reducing the total cost of ownership.
Rapid market changes require shorter release cycles without sacrificing quality, stability, and security. Tools and processes for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) make it easier for you to plan, manage risk, adapt to evolving customer needs faster, and improve system stability. Release in a fast, consistent, and reliable way by using highly productive tools, automating mundane and manual steps, and iterating in small increments through continuous testing and integration.
Proactively apply policies and controls, and set automated gates as part of the pipeline to move applications between stages seamlessly until they’re made available to customers.
With an increasingly complex environment to manage, maximizing the use of automation helps you improve operational efficiency, identify issues before they affect the customer experience, and quickly mitigate issues when they occur. Fully managed platforms provide automated logging, scaling, and high availability. Rich telemetry, actionable alerting, and full visibility into applications and the underlying system are key to a modern application development approach.
Automating regular checkups and applying best practices like infrastructure as code and site reliability engineering promotes resiliency and helps you respond to incidents with minimal downtime and data loss.
