[tstrimple]

> But for developers in big co., acquiring a public cloud account may take months and forms over forms of paperwork, getting roles put into the central corporate directory etc.

I help companies re-architect their solutions for the cloud, and I've worked with companies who had a multi-month process for requesting and provisioning new "cloud servers". If it takes you just as long with just as much overhead to deploy a VM in Azure as it does to buy and provision a physical server, why are you even moving to the cloud?

[OldManAndTheCpp]

Because the services offered after getting onto the public cloud are better than the internal ones, more transparently priced, and cheaper.

[kkarakk]

*if they've bothered to hire more than a cloud specialist. Most of the time the in-house talent won't have time to train in the specificities of cloud used and things with continue as earlier albeit now with cloud branding

[scarface74]

There is nothing cheaper about cloud than bare metal if you’re doing a “lift and shift” and you’re not willing to change your processes.