> But for developers in big co., acquiring a public cloud account may take months and forms over forms of paperwork, getting roles put into the central corporate directory etc.

I help companies re-architect their solutions for the cloud, and I've worked with companies who had a multi-month process for requesting and provisioning new "cloud servers". If it takes you just as long with just as much overhead to deploy a VM in Azure as it does to buy and provision a physical server, why are you even moving to the cloud?