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

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242 points panrobo | 3 comments | 05 Nov 24 20:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.792s | 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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1vuio0pswjnm7 ◴[06 Nov 24 00:16 UTC] No.42056381[source]▶
"In parallel, GEICO, one of the largest automotive insurers in the United States, is actively repatriating many workloads from the cloud as part of a comprehensive architectural overhaul."

Is GEICO a major enterprise

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1. adamc ◴[06 Nov 24 06:01 UTC] No.42057462[source]▶
Per google, more than 30,000 employees, so I'd say enterprise-scale, sure. One of the biggest? No, but not tiny or even medium-sized.
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2. disgruntledphd2 ◴[06 Nov 24 09:46 UTC] No.42058814[source]▶
Insurance companies tend to have far more capital than their employee numbers would suggest. Particularly Geico, who are famously cheap.
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3. wbl ◴[06 Nov 24 17:33 UTC] No.42065872[source]▶
"Have" is an interesting word. Much of that capital is covering a bad year in Florida or California.