In most (good) companies team/group have budgets where large portions are at discretion to group manager. I would expect group managers to approve for such hard

In most (good) companies team/group have budgets where large portions are at discretion to group manager. I would expect group managers to approve for such hardware requests. It’s much harder to justify $4K bills on cloud services. This is not IT issue and I think this thread has got derailed little here.