Desperately Seeking Cloud Repatriation
SiliconANGLE , Saturday, May 6,2023
We've been skeptical about repatriation as a notable movement but anecdotal evidence suggests that it is happening in certain pockets.
Even though we still don't see cloud repatriation broadly showing in the numbers, certain examples have caught our attention. In addition, the potential impact of AI raises some interesting questions about where infrastructure should be physically located and causes us to revisit our premise that repatriation is an isolated and negligible trend.
In this Breaking Analysis we look at a number of sources, including the experiences of 37signals, which has documented its departure from public clouds. We'll also examine the relationship between repatriation and SRE Ops skill sets. As always we'll look at survey data from our partners at ETR, a recent FinOps study published by Vega Cloud and revisit the Cloud Repatriation Index, which we believe is breaking a three-year trend.