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Why Companies Are Ditching the Cloud: The Rise of Cloud Repatriation

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242 points panrobo | 1 comments | 05 Nov 24 20:19 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jsnell ◴[05 Nov 24 21:12 UTC] No.42055205[source]▶
I don't know that 37Signals counts as a "major enterprise". Their Cloud exodus can't have been more than a few dozen servers, right?

Meanwhile AWS is growing at 20%/year, Azure at 33% and GCP at 35%. That doesn't seem compatible with any kind of major cloud repatriation trend.

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WaxProlix ◴[05 Nov 24 21:15 UTC] No.42055237[source]▶
How much of that is what technologists would consider "cloud" (IAAS, PAAS) versus what someone on the business side of things would consider "cloud" - office365, google gsuite, etc?
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tiffanyh ◴[05 Nov 24 21:20 UTC] No.42055267[source]▶
Given that AWS is doing $100B in annual revenue and still growing at 17% YoY ... and they do NOT have a collaboration suite (office/gsuite) - it'd say at least for AWS it's nearly all IaaS/PaaS.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/amazon_q1_2024/

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gonzo41 ◴[05 Nov 24 21:23 UTC] No.42055288[source]▶
I'd agree on IaaS/PaaS being the main driver. Id guess that everyone is running away from serverless offerings from all the main cloud providers. It's just day 1 lock in to a platform with no shared standards. It's very uncompetitive and kind of slow to innovate.
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1. jiggawatts ◴[05 Nov 24 22:06 UTC] No.42055601{3}[source]▶
We’re migrating over a hundred apps to Azure App Service.

One has an issue with the platform-enforced HTTP timeout maximum values.

I migrated that app back to a VM in an hour.

It turns out that the “integration” for something like App Service (or CloudRun or whatever) is mostly just best practices for any kind of hosting: parameters read from environment variables, immutable binaries with external config, stateless servers, read only web app folders, monitoring with APMs, etc…

Sure, you’ll experience lockin if you use Durable Functions or the similar Lambda features… but no worse than any other workflow or business rules platform.

Ask people how easy it is to get off BizTalk or MuleSoft…