In my companies where we used the cloud it just came down to internal pragmatism on our part. If we wanted to hire someone that could take over a year between c

In my companies where we used the cloud it just came down to internal pragmatism on our part. If we wanted to hire someone that could take over a year between convincing management to allocate the budget for it and going through HR's hiring process. The cloud was something where the recurring monthly costs were small enough to be expensed. We were given a single IT contractor who worked at multiple sites for the company and would show up 1-2 weeks after you notified him of an issue. So we ended up using the cloud, the company has a giant liability now that everything is dependent on the cloud providers, but management ends up happy because they only see 4-5figure charges per month and not a 6 figure cost per year they'd see for a new employee. I'm pretty sure if the company's budgets reported employees as monthly costs we could have just gotten another employee, but there's not much you can do when the decisions are made that far above your head