Yeah, Cloud is a bit of a scam innit? Oxide is looking more and more attractive every day as the industry corrects itself from overspending on capabilities they would never need.
Fake news.
I've got my bare metal server deployed and installed with my ansible playbook even before you manage to log into the bazillion layers of abstraction that is AWS.
But can you do that on demand in minutes for 1000 application teams that have unique snowflake needs. Because terraform or bicep can.
In multiple regions?
Yes, welcome to business. But frankly an email provider needs to have their own metal, if they don't they're not worth doing business with