Why enterprises are exiting the public cloud

Why enterprises are exiting the public cloud

March 11, 2026 · 39 min

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This episode discusses the trend of enterprises moving away from public cloud services due to rising costs and compliance issues.

If your cloud bill feels more like a mortgage payment than an operating expense, you’re not alone. Over the last decade, enterprises rushed into the public cloud for speed and flexibility—only to wake up with a serious cloud hangover: spiraling storage costs, egress fees on every experiment, and compliance teams asking hard questions about where data actually lives. In today’s episode, we’re unpacking the rise of data repatriation—the move to bring data, applications, and AI workloads back fr...

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Host: Vanimal

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Organizations: public cloud, compliance teams, AI

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