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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: 0.208s | 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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PittleyDunkin ◴[06 Nov 24 03:06 UTC] No.42057002[source]▶
You can have multiple trends at once. Veteran cloud users leaving, international business onboarding.
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dhfuuvyvtt ◴[06 Nov 24 07:30 UTC] No.42057850[source]▶
And then there's me: never left the datacenter in the first place.
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hggigg ◴[06 Nov 24 07:54 UTC] No.42057944[source]▶
Wise person. Wish we hadn't. Managed to multiply costs 8x (no joke).
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thrw42A8N ◴[06 Nov 24 11:28 UTC] No.42060310[source]▶
No way that is true if you did it properly. Practically nobody has a workload where this could be true - and it's definitely not a workload smaller than several DCs.

It doesn't work out well if you just create some long lived EC2 instances and call it a day. But that's not really using a cloud, just a VPS - and that has indeed never been cheaper than having your own servers. You need to go cloud native if you want to save money.

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1. hggigg ◴[06 Nov 24 11:44 UTC] No.42060531[source]▶
It’s easy. Lift and shift, then fuck it up by not quite completely migrate everything to numerous badly managed kubernetes clusters. That’s what we did.