Cloud Exodus: Why Enterprises Are Rethinking the Multi-Cloud Mandate — and What to Do Before Costs Become Irreversible
After years of cloud-first mandates, a notable wave of US enterprises is pulling workloads back on-premises or consolidating onto fewer providers — driven by escalating egress fees, vendor lock-in, and architectural mismatches that were never part of the original business case. Understanding what went wrong, and how to correct course strategically, is now among the most pressing infrastructure challenges facing technology leaders.