alt Hacker News> Again - anecdotes is not data. We have data.
You have data showing growth in cloud, which I expect and don't disagree with. The data I come across shows this too!
What I disagree with, from my own experiences and all the data I can seem to find online is that the growth rate in repatriation is MUCH higher than the growth in cloud.
It has flipped over the last 3yr.
US Enterprises, Fortune 100, especially. Also a lot of public entities (gov).
"In 2025, repatriation is still generally an upward trend. Data from the end of 2024 showed that 86% of CIOs planned to move some public cloud workloads back to private cloud or on-premises — the highest on record for the Barclays CIO Survey."
"Real examples of cloud repatriation include Dropbox, Adobe, and GEICO. All three companies moved a significant portion of their infrastructure onto public cloud before moving it to a combination of on-premises and hybrid cloud providers."
Noted: SaaS accounts for 46.10% of market revenue, while PaaS is the fastest-growing segment at 21.35% CAGR
Again, anecdotes. I have public company quarterly statements - you have unsourced quotes. You can quote Geico - I can quote Netflix. If on prem was really growing, I wouldn’t expect Intel to be in the shitter and I would expect Capex to be focused on Colo centers not cloud.
Also when I searched for your quotation the very next paragraph was
“ This trend does not represent a rejection of cloud computing. Organizations continue investing heavily in cloud services, with Gartner forecasting that global cloud spending will reach approximately $723 billion by the end of 2025.”