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Cloud Repatriation Driven By AI, Cost, And Security

DARKReading, Wednesday, June 25th, 2025

Organizations are moving away from the public cloud and embracing a more hybrid approach due to big changes over the past five years.

The acceleration of artificial intelligence (AI) has changed the way many enterprises are run, with the technology automating business processes and executing business queries. So it's not a huge surprise that AI is also transforming how companies use their cloud infrastructures.

The focus on cloud migration over the past few years is plateauing as many organizations begin to embrace cloud repatriation - moving data, assets, and workloads out of the cloud and back to the data center. The difference is that organizations may not be going back to on-premises but rather to a private cloud or a hybrid cloud. Continued concerns about security in the cloud and a soaring price tag are also driving the cloud repatriation trend.

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