We've had to work very hard to allow for developers/sre/ops folks to be able provision vms and bare-metal machines in our datacenters the same way they would in the cloud provider that we use. Obviously its not as fast, seamless or feature-rich as it is with aws/gcp/azure et al, but I'm proud of the progress we've made.

What really kills me though, is that a huge chunk of our engineers seem to think our work is a complete waste of time in the first place. We have several physical dcs, and tens of thousands of machines... but since most engineers don't have to think about costs, or about workloads other than their own, they think of us as out of touch and clinging to the past.

Nothing worse than getting snark about our platform from an SRE who spends their days in a web app glueing together the ready made services of google and amazon while acting as if they're building the world of tomorrow :)