# Act II — Why the deal was good



You turn on a cloud server.
Ten minutes, and it's running.
The old way was four months of procurement paperwork to get you one.

Real money is now riding on somebody else doing that job.

Is it worth it?



- [Why we signed the cloud deal](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act2-value/the-solvency-ii-deadline/)

- [Provider Value](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act2-value/intro-to-value/)

- [What is the value of information?](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act2-value/value-of-information/)

- [Value in Process Improvement](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act2-value/value-in-process-improvement/)

- [Non-Monetary Values](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act2-value/non-monetary/) — Money isn't the only currency of value. Belonging, identity, and professional pride shape IT decisions as much as budgets do — and are a source of power in their own right.

- [Games of value and power](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act2-value/game-theory/)

- [The Prisoner's Dilemma](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act2-value/prisoners-dilemma/)

- [A service agreement is a set of promises](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act2-value/promise-theory-services/)

- [Agile Requires Cloud](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act2-value/agile-requires-cloud/)

- [Multiple Ways to Go Cloud](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act2-value/three-ways-to-go-cloud/)

- [Business Model Canvas for IaaS Providers](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act2-value/business-model-canvas-iaas/) — Mapping AWS EC2 onto the nine blocks of the Business Model Canvas, from customer segments to cost structure, to see what actually makes an IaaS business work.

- [Business Model Canvas for SaaS Providers](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act2-value/business-model-canvas-saas/)

- [Selecting Software Providers](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act2-value/selecting-software/)

- [Network Neutrality: who pays the ferryman?](https://digitalinfrastructures.nl/book/act2-value/network-neutrality-who-pays-the-ferryman/)