In my experience, in-house groups racking and configuring and maintaining boxes often become a priesthood of negative value bickering over pet machine names.
While cloud overcharges for McD product, I know what I get.
Not to mention that you get it within minutes of asking for it. I've worked at places where the internal bureaucracy managed to take double digit weeks to deliver a new database instance.
It‘a very depressing hearing this. Anything cloud at my company takes exponentially longer to setup as we have layers and layers of bureaucracy for any data that leaves our network.
While cloud overcharges for McD product, I know what I get.