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I never had this problem on AWS though I did see some startups struggle with some more specialized instances. Are midsize companies actually running into issues with non-specialized compute on AWS?

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Our problem was we had a less than 24 hours to transition to work from home. Someone came down with COVID symptoms and spread it to the office and no one wanted to come in. We didn't have enough laptops for 250+ employees. Developer equivalent 16-core, 32GB RAM , and GPU instances is radically different from general compute web front ends. And we couldn't get enough of them. We had to tell some staff to hang tight while checking AWS+Azure daily.

These weren't the typical cheap scale out, general compute but virtualized workstations to replace physical, in office equivalents.

The company I was at in March 2020 had no issues getting more general purpose compute, and our growth was massive

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