What should be considered RIGHT NOW, is that given the supply chain issues, if you are NOT on a cloud platform, good luck getting new hardware from major vendor

What should be considered RIGHT NOW, is that given the supply chain issues, if you are NOT on a cloud platform, good luck getting new hardware from major vendors. With AWS/Azure you can provision immediately. If you have some old hardware whose performance is impacting your production environment given the dependency on it, good luck. Firms like Dell are already stating this.