My experience working at an aging e-commerce company that has their own cloud: totally shitty.
They used off the shelf management software that they misconfigured. Getting VMs was so painful and they never worked correctly.
When I came back from paternity leave, they had gotten no response from their automated system and deleted all my VMs even though they could have seen heavy usage. If they had manually followed up they would have gotten an out of office email but they didn't.
Those are just two of the examples of how terrible it was to use their internal cloud.
You are always going to be five years behind if you do it internally. That might be a good cost calculation and I wasn't in a position to argue.
They used off the shelf management software that they misconfigured. Getting VMs was so painful and they never worked correctly.
When I came back from paternity leave, they had gotten no response from their automated system and deleted all my VMs even though they could have seen heavy usage. If they had manually followed up they would have gotten an out of office email but they didn't.
Those are just two of the examples of how terrible it was to use their internal cloud.
You are always going to be five years behind if you do it internally. That might be a good cost calculation and I wasn't in a position to argue.
But, it meant innovation was terrible there.