With growing reliance on cloud services to drive digital transformation, the perception of cloud computing has undergone a significant transformation. While cloud adoption has driven scalability and flexibility for businesses, many organizations are now reevaluating their cloud commitments due to rising costs, data sovereignty concerns, and the desire for more control over critical workloads.
According to IDC report 2023, around 80% of companies expect to repatriate some of their cloud workloads within the next two years, citing rising cloud costs and data sovereignty concerns as primary drivers.
Cloud repatriation helps in transferring certain workloads, applications, or data from public cloud environments back to on-premises systems or private cloud infrastructure. Contrary to misconceptions, cloud repatriation does not signify abandoning the cloud. Instead, it represents a strategic recalibration of IT resources to align better with specific business requirements, particularly for mission-critical or latency-sensitive workloads.