That simplicity changed how software gets built, and for good reason. Application teams should spend more time building software and less time assembling infrastructure.
But for organizations in regulated industries, getting an application running is only the beginning. A patient scheduling system, financial application, government service, or aerospace workload may remain in production for years.
During that time, operating systems need patching. For these organizations, the question is no longer simply: How quickly can we deploy?
It is: How easily can we deploy, and keep that application secure, supported, observable, auditable, and operational for years? "The services built for fast starts also need to support long stays." That is why platform selection for regulated workloads runs on three axes rather than one.
