Comment by lelanthran

> all in all from the moment of ordering to fully operational was about 10 minutes tops.

I think this is an important point. It's quick.

When cloud got popular, doing what you did could take upwards of 3 months in an organisation, with some being closer to 8 months. The organisational bureaucracy meant that any asset purchase was a long procedure.

So, yeah, the choices were:

1. Wait 6 months to spend out of capex budget

Or

2. Use the opex budget and get something in 10m.

We are no longer in that phase, so cloud services makes very little sense now because you can still use the opex budget to get a VPS and have in going in minutes with automation.