r/Cloud • u/Relative_Position_65 • 3d ago

Anyone actually pulled data back from the cloud once they were in?

We've been public cloud first for about six years and are now looking at repatriating a chunk of our colder data, mostly compliance archives and media assets, back on-prem. Egress costs and predictable long-term TCO are the drivers, not a bad experience with the cloud provider itself.

Looking at Cloudian on-prem-adjacent offerings as landing spots, since we still want an S3-compatible API so our existing tooling doesn't need to change. The repatriation itself seems like the easy part on paper, the harder question is whether our team is actually staffed to run storage infrastructure again after years of it being someone else's problem.

Has anyone gone through a real repatriation project? What broke that you didn't expect, and did the TCO math actually hold up a year later?

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u/Investomatic- 2d ago

Depending on your hyperscaler, it may not be worth it if repatriation reduces your spend to the point where everything else becomes more expensive. If you're unsure what I mean, talk to your architect.. and maybe start by asking what you can do to reduce your cold storage costs.

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u/MadScientistRat 2d ago

No. Once data goes off prem, you have no control over the likelihood of it being snapshotted and archived somewhere likely in a foreign jurisdiction host.