India, Oct. 19 -- It's slow but it's happening. Cloud roll-backs are now much more than cost saving-attempts or back-to-comfort-zone shuffles. We all heard - in some way- about Basecamp's 37Signals pulling the plug on a big Cloud vendor in early 2023 hoping it will save $7 million in the next five years by going on premise. The figure started touching $10 million recently. But there's more to a Cloud exit than simply eking out dollars these days.

GEICO moved over 600 apps to the cloud over a decade but ended up with 2.5 times higher costs. Now they're moving back to private cloud. Dropbox pulled 90 per cent of customer data off AWS and built their own hybrid system, saving a lot of money. Adobe also shifted major parts of their infrastru...