Cloud Repatriation

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. The practice of moving workloads from public cloud platforms back to private infrastructure, colocation, or on-premises systems. In tech culture cloud repatriation is often discussed when cost, control, or performance assumptions change.

    In plain English: Moving workloads from the cloud back to private or on-prem infrastructure.

    Example: "The company's cloud repatriation plan was less ideological than practical: GPU-heavy workloads had simply become too expensive in the public cloud."

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