Modernization can cause apprehension for any organization, raising concerns about significant investment and resource-intensive initiatives that can also introduce business risk. Efforts often stall as security concerns, costs, and complexity escalate. But updating and transforming existing applications and their underlying infrastructure is vital to delivering personalized, real-time, and collaborative experiences to distributed users while maintaining cost efficiency. It’s also why cloud-native infrastructure and technology are key to accelerating architecture modernization, and why so many organizations can benefit from the workload decentralization and platform-driven innovation that cloud-native app modernization can enable. Although transforming existing applications can introduce new challenges, modernizing apps is essential to pursuing a modern cloud strategy and brings new advanced capabilities to organizations, such as the ability to innovate faster, reduce TCO, and consume and deploy AI/ML functionality.