
Tl;dr: We’re going to need a bigger boat array of telescopes to find evidence of significant cloud repatriation Let’s belabor the great cloud repatriation movement just a little longer! The Platformonomics Repatriation Index™ is a quick and dirty heuristic that compares the revenue of the two biggest data centers operators with Amazon Web Services, the…

Today, on Twitter (not Mastodon), we introduced the Platformonomics Repatriation Index™. Remember cloud repatriation? The cloud was due for a mass exodus, or so claimed some (self-interested) venture capitalists. Beyond the moribund DropBox and the attention-seekers at 37signals (who have yet to repatriate and may lose interest after publishing that post), actual examples of repatriation…