If you haven’t yet, I urge you to read “The Big Cloud Exit FAQ” by David Heinemeier Hansson of 37signals. What struck me was his candor about why the company moved off the cloud and his responses to the criticism and questions about this decision.
This hit home, considering that I’m a cloud expert and architect who has also moved some systems from the cloud and back on premises in search of more cost-effective platforms to run some applications or house vast amounts of data.
The simple fact is that public cloud platforms are not suitable for some workloads or data sets, which can live on more cost-effective platforms such as your own servers in your own data center. This is not a knock on cloud computing; it’s just the reality. The cloud can be costly, and it’s not economically viable for some applications and data types. Also, hardware, including storage and computing, has gotten a lot cheaper, as Hansson points out, as did I in my latest book.
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