Is Cloud Repatriation The Only Answer?
SearchCloudComputing, Monday, September 23rd, 2024
Cloud repatriation should be a last resort, not a repudiation of the cloud. Do you know how to fully optimize cloud workloads to avoid costly in-house investment?
There is a lot of talk about cloud repatriation, in which organizations move a workload from the cloud to an on-premises data center. But repatriation doesn't happen often.
According to Andover Intel research, only about 9% of enterprises said they've moved any applications out of the cloud. Additionally, less than 3% see any reason for cloud repatriation other than cost, although over half expressed some disappointment with cloud costs.
The cloud is nimble, elastic, resilient and sometimes cheaper than building a data center resource pool for peak demands. But hosting certain data in the cloud can create data sovereignty issues. Enterprises that move data from a secure store into the cloud can also generate huge transit costs that make the application impossible to justify.