GEICO's dramatic shift from cloud-first to cloud-repatriation showcases a significant trend in enterprise infrastructure strategy. After accumulating a $300 million annual cloud bill across eight providers and managing 200,000 compute cores, the insurance giant decided to bring workloads back on-premises in 2023. By implementing Open Compute Project specifications with partner Wiwynn, GEICO achieved remarkable savings: 50% reduction in compute costs and 60% in storage costs. Their journey through cloud adoption, growth, cost realization, and eventual repatriation serves as a crucial lesson for enterprises evaluating their infrastructure strategies, proving that bigger isn't always better in cloud computing..