I worked at an org that had a substantial on-prem GPU datacenter. We transitioned to <Big Cloud Provider> with a substantial negotiated discount rate, with part of the contract being we would sell them all of our hardware and not purchase any more.
> and not purchase any more.
why would anyone sign such a contract?
How does this work? Is the OEM giving the cloud provider a big discount or is the cloud provider giving you a teaser rate to lock up your business.