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KCNA · Question #140

In a cloud native environment, who is usually responsible for maintaining the workloads running across the different platforms?

The correct answer is B. The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team. In a cloud native environment, the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team (B) is responsible for the reliability, availability, and operational health of workloads running across platforms. SRE bridges development and operations, managing deployments, on-call responses, and…

Submitted by priya_blr· May 4, 2026Cloud Native Architecture

Question

In a cloud native environment, who is usually responsible for maintaining the workloads running across the different platforms?

Options

  • AThe cloud provider.
  • BThe Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team.
  • CThe team of developers.
  • DThe Support Engineering team (SE).

How the community answered

(60 responses)
  • A
    3% (2)
  • B
    88% (53)
  • C
    2% (1)
  • D
    7% (4)

Explanation

In a cloud native environment, the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team (B) is responsible for the reliability, availability, and operational health of workloads running across platforms. SRE bridges development and operations, managing deployments, on-call responses, and service level objectives. Cloud providers (A) manage the underlying infrastructure, not customer workloads. Developers (C) write the code but typically do not own production operations. Support Engineering (D) handles customer-facing issues, not internal workload maintenance.

Topics

#Cloud Native Roles#SRE#Workload Management#Operational Responsibility

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