This struck a nerve with me. I was a SWE at a company that moved to the cloud last year, after having a couple racks at a local colo previously. I was able to e

This struck a nerve with me. I was a SWE at a company that moved to the cloud last year, after having a couple racks at a local colo previously. I was able to experiment and iterate so much faster when we owned hardware, despite all the cloud's elasticity. After we migrated, everything was request, wait, explain, request, wait... I know some organizations handle this really well, but when mine didn't, it sucked to be a developer there.