I work for a massive corporation who's been on the cloud journey for about 10 years now with no signs of slowing. I think what my company loves most about cloud is that you can throw money at the bad management and volatility problems.

Even if a department spins up 500 servers for some executive's sacred cow when the project goes bust it's trivial to tear down the whole thing without requiring semi trucks.

The other very important thing is inventory auditing. Managing inventory in 10 datacenters built and populated by 100 teams over 30 years is a nightmare. Cloud provides a mechanism to build the coveted "single pane of glass" which large companies need desperately.