Ultimately companies that abdicate their informatics operations like this will give their profits to their data-center operators, who will be empowered to charge them whatever price they want. Because what's their BATNA? Migrating from Azure to AWS when Microsoft doesn't want to let them?
Renting your information infrastructure is a great way to reduce startup costs, but down the road, that information infrastructure runs your company. Trying to outsource it is like trying to outsource upper management.
To be clear, I'm not saying that the optimal amount of cloud services for an established company like FedEx to buy is 0. They bring in management consultants, too. But it sure isn't 100%.
Renting your information infrastructure is a great way to reduce startup costs, but down the road, that information infrastructure runs your company. Trying to outsource it is like trying to outsource upper management.
To be clear, I'm not saying that the optimal amount of cloud services for an established company like FedEx to buy is 0. They bring in management consultants, too. But it sure isn't 100%.