Some firms hit eject on Cloud-first

Walmart, the world's largest retailer, also decided to adopt a hybrid approach a few years ago.

- AVIK DAS

The company invested in 10,000 edge nodes - inhouse devices and servers that can handle data processing locally - to reduce reliance on public Cloud service providers.

Ashutosh Sharma, vicepresident and research director at Forrester, says that earlier, enterprises were gung-ho about using public Clouds such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform for everything, but many have now tempered their exuberance.

"If you look at Europe, there is a huge desire to repatriate. Repatriate in the sense that they are not just content having it in their own data centres. They also have concerns about putting their workloads into global Cloud service providers that originate from the US. So they are thinking of working with local Cloud providers or putting certain workloads onto platforms that the government and local regulations have some control over," he added.