Translating the business value to Finance may be a CAPEX/OPEX discussion. But leasing servers and getting hands on with the metal and containers are also OPEX.

Translating the business value to Finance may be a CAPEX/OPEX discussion. But leasing servers and getting hands on with the metal and containers are also OPEX. Accounting doesn't care about the technical architecture. They just don't want a data center of idle servers running Pentium's from 2010.