In my experience, those tasked with making such business-critical decisions about what size cloud provider to opt for are confronted with several opinions on the matter, often from sources with their own biases on the subject.

To my knowledge, there is only one overriding advantage of a large cloud provider, namely price. Whilst companies who build bigger data centres can drive down the unit price offering cost savings to customers, flexibility in the contract is usually compromised as a result.

With large cloud providers it is nigh on impossible to get a contractual change, let alone a contract that is designed specifically for the needs of individual businesses.

Due to the sheer levels of governance in place, even the smallest of changes remain impossible as the system does not allow for flexibility – they operate on a “this is our offer, take it or leave it” basis.

In the case of …