Why companies are leaving the cloud

Looks like migrating to/from the cloud is going to come and go in cycles like offshoring.

Save you a click: cost.

You mean eternally renting servers, paying out the nose for bandwidth, and being gouged for storage is a money-losing strategy????

Meanwhile, you also get to contend with noisy neighbors causing the CPU steal, exhausting disk, ram & network I/O, and similar depredations, all while being at the mercy of a help desk that is often less responsive than a server you control yourself.

Or you can pay significantly less and get way more dedicated resources if your amenable to a monthly billing model and not using the ability to scale way up and scale way down to control infrastructure costs in the cloud.

i’m playing 4d chess and i’ll wait until every one else goes back to managing shit in data centers and then reap the cost benefits of a cloud market where supply exceeds demand!

You can get dirt cheap rack servers on eBay now since everyone moved to the cloud. I'm appreciating the current position in the cycle.