Hrm. I have worked for a global corporation that you have almost certainly heard of. Though it's not super sexy. The parent you're replying to resonates with m

Hrm. I have worked for a global corporation that you have almost certainly heard of. Though it's not super sexy. The parent you're replying to resonates with me. A lot of politics about how you spend and how you commit, it's almost as bad as the commitment terms for bare-metal providers (3,6,12,24month commits). Except the base-load is more expensive. It depends a lot on your load, but for my workloads (which, is fragile dumb but very vertical compute with a wide geographic dispersion), the cost is so high that a few dozen thousand has been missed numerous times, despite having in-house "fin-ops" folks casting their gaze upon our spend.