From Repatriation To Replatforming: The Cloud Story No One Wants To Tell
CIO, Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Reversing cloud deployment decisions is no longer a setback. The real story isn't repatriation. It's architectural maturity.
I've walked into infrastructure review meetings expecting to talk about AI acceleration, only to spend the entire time on a different problem: Why the cloud footprint kept growing even though application demand had flattened. Teams had modernized aggressively. Platform leaders were confident, and contracts were up to date. Yet, spend curves no longer matched business growth.