Deciding to repatriate your cloud workload back on-prem can feel like a defeat. Typically, businesses undertake repatriation because running workloads in the cloud turned out not to deliver the performance, cost or security results they were hoping for – so they pull the plug on the cloud and return at least some workloads to their own data centers.
That doesn’t mean, however, that moving workloads back to an on-prem environment should feel like a failure. A better approach is to treat repatriation as an opportunity to optimize your workloads and strategy. If you can make your workloads better than when they originally ran on-prem, cloud repatriation becomes a way to create value, rather than a mere retreat.
