[ocdtrekkie]

Eh, I would argue that any advantage cloud has in ease of configuration is because of the brain drain in good server software caused by the cloud: Spend some time in Microsoft Azure and it becomes instantly sad that all this manpower was pulled off of Windows Server (which has stagnated as a product) and been invested in a proprietary service product that runs on top of Windows Server. And the former will outlive the latter more than likely.