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It's interesting that they decided setting up a cloud server did not require the same level of review. That does not seem exactly like the result of a technical

• manishsharan 5y ago
  When you bring in a new technology or capacity to on-premise, you would want to maximize the bang for the buck which means that you want to review your roadmaps to see who else could benefit from the new technology or capaciy. For Cloud services, this is not really required. Also, there is a level of trust with the Big Three meaning that we can trust that they will be able to manage SQL,Cassandra etc with ease; this IT departmens do not have the manpower bandwidth to keep on adding new servers or services. Hence some of reveiws are not really required.
• Spivak 5y ago
  The difference is that your local IT team is overworked, understaffed (yay IT is a cost center), and bears the full deployment and ongoing monitoring and maintenance responsibility. In new cloud land you're essentially contracting out a team at Amazon to handle all that. You can rent a team that is dedicated to that one particular service. In cloud land behind every service there is a whole team of people dedicated to maintaining that particular service, in on-prem land behind every service is a 1/20th of the capacity of your IT team.
• Aperocky 5y ago
  Because if you didn't need it you can just shut it down. Lot harder to refund that new server that was just installed on the rack.