I do mostly remember and encounter with on-premise datacenters the following pains - Small selection of services (databases, queue's,...) If a service was not

I do mostly remember and encounter with on-premise datacenters the following pains - Small selection of services (databases, queue's,...) If a service was not yet in house, brace yourself for a year of meetings, enterprise contracts, security audits,... - Overprovisioning of everything as it was a weekly to monthly process to acquire new resources - lots of half-assed documentation with many manual steps being missed. Sometimes the DEV environment was so different from the PROD environment you couldn't reliable trust deployments. - lots of outdated software and servers with tooling that promised to ease all of that while delivering none of it. - different teams for different components, all with their own procedures, zero API's and you hoping that the one guy that actually helps you is not on a holiday. - Very strange limitations because how all the different vendors had their own set of restrictions and zero incentive to adopt another vendors solution.