[benterix]

And yet, every single large company I worked for had AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, without exception. Many also have extensive on-prem resources.

Also, the contract negotiations you mentioned work much better if the competitor is already well present in your company.

[alephnerd]

> every single large company I worked for had AWS, Azure and Google Cloud,

Multi-cloud is different from on-prem related stuff like multi-hypervisors, because there are multiple billing methods, the muscle to migrate is much better built in the industry, and your cloud costs can be placed within R&D (which traditionally gets way more leeway due to tax benefits) whereas any IT Infra spend will inevitably fall under the Finance&IT budget.

[benterix]

Of course it's very different, but it's the same in how buying the same functionality from a competitor is not a reason to get you fired unless there are other specific conditions.

[alephnerd]

> buying the same functionality from a competitor is not a reason to get you fired unless there are other specific conditions

There are different expectations depending on the kind of bucket you are spending from.

The amount of capital you have to spend in the R&D bucket is much larger than the Finance&IT bucket and who you report to (CTO vs CFO) is different.