This here is the compelling case for the cloud. It was always less about the features and the money save, it's that I now have 1 stop shop vendor, if I need a queue I can spin it up in 10 minutes, instead of filling out a ticket to internal IT getting them to put it on their backlog waiting until they have the cycles, and in the meantime I'm sitting on my thumbs.

I need a new server, in the old times it was a ticket, a budget meeting, two or three levels of sign off, a business case, on and on. Whereas in AWS or Azure I can spin up a box in about 20 minutes and be all ready to go, and happily start developing.

Just like MS was never about technical excellence, it was about being a pre-approved vendor that had everything you needed, so you wouldn't have to go through another vendor approval process. Same with the cloud now scaled down to a team size, I now know I am pre-authorized to spin up X number of resources without having to worry about security throwing a fit, or blowing an enormous amount of money.

Because companies do not like things going into assets category. Instead rent dedicated servers on Hetzner or wherever else it is price competitive and see red tape disappear.

>"So there's an incentive for developers to push to use a cloud so they can grow into their next role."

This is very lame argument. I am developer and a business and do understand both sides but sorry I run a business to make money, not to give them to Amazon and definitely not to be playground where developers can play with Amazon tech at owner's expense.