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Best Practices: Cloud-Native App Modernization

Best Practices to Accelerate Your Cloud-Native App Modernization

Published October 2025
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Successful app modernization requires balancing investments, benefits, and business constraints. Cloud-native infrastructure and technology play a key role in accelerating this process, and enabling workload decentralization and platform-driven innovation. While transforming complex applications can introduce new challenges, modernization is essential for adopting a modern cloud strategy and unlocking advanced capabilities such as AI/ML.

The Forrester Best Practices: Cloud-Native App Modernization report defines the three key goals of modernization, five major modernization approaches, and five constraints that organizations need to navigate.