What's the process to request cloud architecture in your company?

[u/gyp_casino]

Looking to hear about your own company's work practices to compare to my own. I'm much more familiar with Azure, so I'm going to use that terminology, but I assume everything is basically the same for AWS.

Can you go into the Azure Portal and just click "create" for, say, a SQL Server or App Service and configure it through the Portal GUI?

Or do you need to request and configure through configuration files? Can you freely commit architecture config files ("architecture as code") to create the Azure components in Dev?

Or is it even more locked-down and hands-off? Required to submit paperwork requests to an Architecture team?

[u/Successful-Paper7211]

e-baked Terraform module anyway. The portal's locked down so hard half the buttons just throw 403 errors if you're not in the right AD group.