traditional bare metal: Email IT and ask for 3 severs spun up for this small in-house project my team is working on. Email back and forth for a few days, book two meetings, and then wait 10-14 days before getting access to the servers.
Cloud: log onto a web portal, select the specs I want for the servers, press OK and log in 30 seconds later.
Then wait a week for tech support in India to respond because the public load balancer was provisioned with a malformed cert and there is no way to sensibly reconfigure it.
Cloud: log onto a web portal, select the specs I want for the servers, press OK and log in 30 seconds later.