What are the characteristics of cloud native architectures?

Cloud-native architectures is the conjunction of three attributes - Microservices architectures, container-based applications and dynamic orchestration of compute, storage, and networking resources.  The conjunction of microservices, containers, and dynamic orchestration with agile development and DevOps enables organizations to maximize their return on investment in cloud computing platforms by developing applications that are optimized for cloud infrastructures and characterized by support for rapid, automated iterations of application updates.