Cloud cost management is rapidly becoming a must-have skill for anyone who consumes cloud resources on a day-to-day basis, even for software developers.

As corporates’ data sets grow and complex workloads take precedent, we ask, what value can the cloud bring to a scaling enterprise? Based on cost, is it time for some companies to start looking at bringing cloud services back home? And if so, what model of repatriation would make the most sense - in terms of IT optimization, flexibility and finance for the scaling enterprise?