At a pure tech company, moves across architectures and platforms is an absolute non-story unless the company is broken: Choose and implement hardware to achieve

At a pure tech company, moves across architectures and platforms is an absolute non-story unless the company is broken: Choose and implement hardware to achieve desired goals at the right price points. Reassess as the industry changes. That service you are talking to might be running on a Xeon Windows Server instance on vmware, or a Neoverse N1 Linux instance over KVM. Whatever was right. Cloudflare specifically say that they try to operate this way, and probably have since day, as does any competent tech company. It's more the tech-as-a-cost-center company that has such restrictions. The accounting shop or traditional bank where "We use X, Y and Z! We're an Intel and Dell company!", where the desktops are all running Windows 7.