Building applications as small, independent services that work together. Like a restaurant where different stations handle appetizers, main courses, and desserts separately.
Netflix uses microservices where separate teams handle user accounts, recommendations, video streaming, and payments independently.
Microservices is an architecture, not a single cloud product. These managed container orchestration services (Kubernetes or container platforms) are commonly used to deploy, scale, and operate microservices across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.