Honua
// pillar 04 · cloud-native

Built from cloud primitives,
not retrofitted onto them.

Less ops. More elasticity. Lower spend at idle. Managed services do the boring work, autoscaling absorbs the spikes, and cost tracks the requests you actually served — not the peak you sized for two years ago. The GIS stack stops needing its own ops queue.

// the six primitives

What Honua composes from.

Each layer is a cloud primitive your platform team already operates — named in your IaC, billed on your existing cloud account, governed by your existing identity provider.

01Container-first deployment

Honua ships as OCI containers. Run them on the orchestrator your platform team already operates — EKS, AKS, ECS / Fargate, plain K8s, or local Docker.

ECS / FargateContainer AppsEKSAKSDocker
02Serverless functions

Per-request paths — feature queries, tile renders, image fetches, MCP tool calls — deploy as functions that warm on demand.

AWS LambdaAzure FunctionsCloud RunKnative
03Batch & async

Long-running and bursty work runs on managed batch — GP / ETL pipelines, tile baking, raster reprojection, parity diffs, migration imports.

AWS BatchAzure BatchK8s JobsStep Functions
04Elastic autoscaling

Workloads scale out with load and hibernate when idle. No peak-sized capacity, no reserved server pool — cost tracks actual traffic.

Scale-to-zeroHorizontal autoscalingPer-workload limits
05Object storage

Versioned, immutable, range-fetchable blobs as the source of truth — for features, rasters, tiles, styles, and migration artifacts.

AWS S3Azure BlobMinIOCeph
06Identity & SSO

OIDC-first. Map your IdP's groups to Honua roles — then every API call, agent action, and AI DevOps PR runs under the same identity, in the same audit log.

Azure Entra IDAWS CognitoOktaAuth0Keycloak
Coming soon AWS Marketplace + Azure Marketplace listings — the simplest deploy path, billed through your existing cloud account.
// next

Compose the platform from primitives you already run.