I worked for a global company that maintained it's own "cloud" of VMs that we'd use for development purposes. They were entirely unusable. Opening a relativel

I worked for a global company that maintained it's own "cloud" of VMs that we'd use for development purposes. They were entirely unusable. Opening a relatively small file in notepad could take multiple minutes. OS click and typing response times were measured in seconds. Despite wasting thousands of developer hours each year, they refused to upgrade their data center. Probably because doing so would have been a major budget fight that requires an executive to actually advocate for something instead of making their characteristic animalistic grunts of agreement. For better or worse I haven't seen the same issue with cloud expenditure. It seems to be perceived as a necessary expense, rather than the engineering department getting ideas above their station.