> The on-prem to cloud migration took decades for most (and is still ongoing for many!)
The real question whether any migration to cloud was really necessary, or even a cost saving in the end.
Cloud could be considered a brain drain, in a sense.
The real question whether any migration to cloud was really necessary, or even a cost saving in the end.
Cloud could be considered a brain drain, in a sense.
If there were a tariff-induced mass migration off AWS/GCP/Azure by enterprises, it would be to a competing cloud vendor, not back to on-prem.
Evidence for that?
Long answer: There's no movement among major businesses to move off cloud providers, only putting more stuff onto. Every "we moved our stuff back on-prem and saved tons of money!" post I see on HN is from companies with miniscule (<$10k/month) cloud spend anyway.
For transparency, I have some bias since I worked at AWS. But the biggest competitors we saw while I was there were other cloud providers, not people moving back on-prem.