Have you outgrown cloud/utility services and went back to your own bare metal?

Does anyone have any experience with organizations who have 'outgrown'
using a cloud/utility service? At some point, either the application
is specific enough to fall through the cracks of the cloud provider's
menu of offerings (or price menu) or the scale becomes large enough
that it doesn't make economic sense not to run your own machines.

More info here: http://www.kitchensoap.com/2008/02/27/when-do-you-get-too-big-to-use-cloudy-stuff/

I'm looking for examples of this, if you are one of those that outgrew
something like AWS, then please email me.
Why: finishing up a book for O'Reilly on capacity planning, will touch
on this stuff.

thanks in advance,
john allspaw

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