Automation unlocks significant value when implemented for a cloud native architecture. The maturity level of automation will evolve from simply setting up environments and configuring components to performing advanced monitoring, compliance, and optimization across the solution. Combined with increased innovation of cloud vendor services, the maturity of automation and using artificial intelligence and machine learning will allow for predictive actions to be taken to resolve common, known, and increasingly unknown anomalies in a system. This combination of cloud vendor services adoption and automation form two of the three critical design principles for the CNMM, with the application design and architecture principle being the final requirement.