Rising cloud costs, security push some firms back to on-premise infra

The shift, called cloud repatriation, involves moving applications, data, and workloads from a public cloud environment back to on-premises infrastructure, private clouds, or other hosting environment

A decade ago, moving an enterprise’s workload to Cloud was touted as the Next Big Thing in the tech world — a move that could lower operating costs, enable scale, and expedite innovation. But that’s now changing, at least partially. 

Firms are ditching their Cloud-first approach for a more nuanced hybrid strategy — a mix of on-prem (short for on-premise) infrastructure and Cloud presence — to counter escalating costs, rising cybersecurity concerns, and compliance risks across many countries. 

This shift — known as Cloud repatriation — involves moving applications, data, and workloads from a public Cloud environment back to on-prem