[dijit]

100% Agree.

I don't like the idea that the only way to get developers moving is to use cloud, but I agree that it's a solid replacement for really bad ops.

What I've seen in many places is an abstraction over bare metal, some are better than others, openstack, Kubernetes on-prem, vmware etc; are all solutions that have differing amounts of adoption. Ubisoft had a lot of stuff in this area, as does Google. Ubisofts was pretty terrible though.

If you need a physical machine to be deployed, you've hit a certain level of scale and your load is much more known: and even though it can take a few weeks, what you get back is quite competitive.

But if you're waiting for hardware to get anything moving in the first place then that's obviously bad.

What I've taken to doing is prototyping on Google Cloud and then planning to migrate things to on-prem once everything is reaching maturity.