Enterprise cloud repatriation: operational realities beyond simple TCO models

Digital Edge offers colocation and interconnection services to help teams executing cloud repatriation.

• Inventory & timelines: The article stresses inventory first — discovery commonly takes 6–8 weeks (vs. assumed 2 weeks), hardware procurement lead times add 8–16 weeks, and enterprise-scale repatriations typically run 12–24 months from decision to stable post-migration. It also highlights parallel running explicitly as a budgeted phase of 4–12 weeks per workload cluster.
• Cost and operational gaps: Key underweighted factors include egress costs during migration, the impact of 1- or 3-year reserved instance commitments, the need to replace managed services (RDS, DynamoDB, Cloud Spanner, etc.), and the staffing gap for hardware/ops skills. The CTA points to Digital Edge’s APAC colocation and interconnection services and provides a contact email (sales@digitaledgedc.com).