Did You Choose Cloud for the Wrong Reason?

How do you decide which workloads actually belong in the cloud? Companies move applications to public cloud, private cloud, colocation, or bare metal expecting lower costs, easier management, or better security. But when the infrastructure decision comes before the workload requirements, the result can be higher cloud costs, unnecessary complexity, and another migration later. Jeremy Pease, CEO of Aptum, joins Max Clark to break down how IT leaders should decide where applications run. They get into cloud migration and repatriation, connectivity costs that can exceed compute costs, workloads that never needed the scale they were designed for, and a colocation estimate that went from roughly $10,000 a month to $80,000 once the real requirements were modeled. They also discuss the infrastructure savings companies can uncover when they stop optimizing the environment they already chose and ask whether the workload belongs there at all. *What you'll learn* How to evaluate where a workload should actually run When public cloud economics stop making sense Why connectivity can cost more than the infrastructure itself What to model before moving workloads back out of the cloud Why cloud isn't automatically cheaper, simpler, more secure, or more compliant How to make an infrastructure recommendation when the board wants one clean answer *Chapters* 00:00 The colocation quote that changed after the real requirements came out 01:38 Why the application should determine the infrastructure 03:33 The question to ask before choosing any platform 04:16 Is cloud actually cheaper, more secure, or more compliant? 27:13 When connectivity costs more than the infrastructure 29:32 Why companies started moving workloads back from the cloud 48:11 How cloud can compound technical debt 51:32 How much infrastructure cost can actually be removed? 1:07:29 Making an infrastructure recommendation to the board 1:34:19 How a $10K colocation estimate became an $80K decision *Before your next cloud migration, renewal, or repatriation decision* Use the workload assessment: https://www.itbroker.com/blog/cloud-w... *About Jeremy Pease* Jeremy Pease is CEO of Aptum and has more than two decades of experience leading data center, cloud, and managed infrastructure businesses, including leadership roles at Hivelocity, Colohouse, DataBank, and Aptum. Jeremy Pease on LinkedIn:   / jeremy-pease-a53b972   Aptum: https://aptum.com/ *About Signed* Signed is the podcast for buyers in a market built for sellers. Host Max Clark, CEO of ITBroker.com, talks with CIOs, CFOs, operators, and founders about the decisions behind enterprise technology. New episodes weekly: https://www.itbroker.com/podcast Making a technology decision? https://www.itbroker.com/contact