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.
