In addition, the rise of open source technologies provides an avenue for companies seeking to modernize their infrastructure. An open source approach avoids the onerous costs associated with traditional public cloud providers. By leveraging frameworks like Kubernetes for container orchestration and OpenStack for private cloud deployments, enterprises can regain control of their data and resources while minimizing reliance on public cloud offerings. Of course, this comes with its own set of caveats. Containers are more expensive than traditional development. However, when you deploy on your own hardware, you’ve already paid for the extra memory, CPU, and storage they use.
A trend or just a few cases?
The current flurry of cloud repatriations is emblematic of a broader rethinking of how businesses approach their technology infrastructure. The era of reckless cloud adoption is giving way to a more moderate and pragmatic approach. We’ve found that it pays to factor operational costs, compliance requirements, and specific business use cases into infrastructure design.
Many cloud providers don’t know they have a repatriation problem because it hasn’t affected revenue yet. They are also distracted by the number of ongoing AI experiments that are having a huge impact on the services of public cloud providers. But if cloud providers don’t get a sense of the help their clients need to reduce cloud costs, we’ll see more and more repatriation in the next few years.