Fair. I've seen shops like that and I feel bad for them, but that's an organizational limitation, not one imposed by the cloud provider.
If you want to buy server hardware, there is always the spec, testing and sales process no matter what. Hardware buying eats so much time...but at least the fancy dinners are kinda nice.
And there's a proper way to do the accounting for it as a depreciating asset vs buying cloud (and most public orgs actually prefer the former).
If you want to buy server hardware, there is always the spec, testing and sales process no matter what. Hardware buying eats so much time...but at least the fancy dinners are kinda nice. And there's a proper way to do the accounting for it as a depreciating asset vs buying cloud (and most public orgs actually prefer the former).