# A Very Cloudy Christmas Carol 

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# A Very Cloudy Christmas Carol

https://www.youtube.com/embed/l-HSmk8Dm2Y

It’s a festive time of year, but we at Expedient wanted to share our own tale of caution to ensure you never become a Scrooge when it comes to the cloud.

In this webinar replay, we were visited by:

- **The ghost of cloud past** - You went all-in on a hyperscale without considering egress charges and app refactoring.
- **The ghost of cloud present** - You’re struggling trying to right-size and figure out what happened.
- **The ghost of cloud future** - Your leadership now thinks cloud is overly expensive and not worth the effort, halting any efforts to make progress. Now you’re stuck on-premises patching your environment forever.

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