The Shift: From Forge to Cloud-Native

For years, we relied on provisioning fixed servers. If traffic spiked, we scrambled to scale. If traffic dropped, we overpaid for idle CPUs. Laravel Cloud changed the ROI calculation. By implementing "Zoneless" scaling, we’ve moved to a model where: The "Cold Start" is dead: Unlike traditional serverless, Cloud replicas stay warm or hibernate intelligently. Granular Replicas: We aren't scaling "Servers" anymore; we are scaling Workload Replicas. Zero-Touch IaC: Your cloud.yaml (or the dashboard