The government does most things poorly and with little regard to budget or quality. They can't solve problems that are much simpler than cloud computing, so why should I expect them to perform better at a more complex problem?
Right.
You bet.
Absolutely.
Enlighten me further. How exactly will "the market" decide where the government, or a corporation, or even an individual, chooses to buy computing services? I'm very stupid, so you're going to have to explain step by step exactly how "the market" will do this. I mean, here I thought that choices like that were the inputs to the market.
Let's do it for the corporations first. I'm Microsoft. I need the market to decide for me where I should buy motherboards for my cloud data centers. Where do I apply to get "the market" to tell me that?
The government has historically, routinely, consistently, solved problems more complex than cloud computing.
The only way you'd think otherwise is if you had some other motivation to pretend otherwise... some sort of ideology.
That's a common line by conservatives who are actively sabotaging government with policies and laws which they then point to as evidence of such inefficiencies.
Public transport has been disrupted by private transportation options like Uber, Lime, etc.
Public radio and TV is unused by the vast majority of people who use private options daily like streaming services or YouTube.
The public budget is perpetually in shambles and if it was a private company would have had to go bankrupt and cease business by now.
Social security and other support programs are perpetually failing and used as a political wedge.