@Babbit5
"Having worked with Cloud products for near 10 years now,"
You're a cloud salesman. You're misleading El Reg readers, now or in your previous posts - take your pick. Downvotes deserved.
"you do get a much better infrastructure from a company that invests millions/billions and has SLA's around it all than the bit of tin you got from the reseller round the corner."
As others have noted here already, SLAs are worth their weight in gold. IE worthless. Competent delivery is worth more than an SLA but competent delivery doesn't come easy, doesn't come free with an SLA, and isn't necesarily immediately available by just outsourcing the business to some cheapskate outsourcer which now calls itself a cloud outfit. And by definition, cloud outfits are cheapskate - cheap is what they're selling.
As others will have noticed round here already, MS UK Azure sales opportunities are currerntly being referred to MS Canada capacity, right? Won't be the first, won't be the last, won't just be MS.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/04/microsoft_azure_capacity_woes_hit_uk_customers/
On the other hand, how long does it take to get a small vanload of servers and storage from a random Dell/HP/whatever boxshifter?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
