Yes, having to go to someone senior and justify $1M in server purchase periodically does introduce actual cost discipline. Cloud offers rapid scaling which als

Yes, having to go to someone senior and justify $1M in server purchase periodically does introduce actual cost discipline. Cloud offers rapid scaling which also means uncapped incremental OpEx, which for large established enterprises presents some unique challenges. You can try to be permissive so teams can iterate more quickly than on-prem, which then leads to ever growing spend. Or you can be restrictive, and then the flexibility and rapid scaling of cloud is slowed to that of datacenter ops.. but with the added overhead of cloud margin padding.