> Some shops will literally buy from the same vendor even if perf/$ is 3x higher going another route. How many is "some", though? More specifically, what porti

> Some shops will literally buy from the same vendor even if perf/$ is 3x higher going another route. How many is "some", though? More specifically, what portion of the market do they represent? I'm actually genuinely curious as to whether anyone has a feel for this, as, if the proportion is particularly high, it would explain why even AWS's prices seem competitive to some managers who I would have otherwise thought would have an idea of how cheap commodity hardware is. Previously, I thought only "enterprise" shops suffered from this, where the multiplier can easily be 10x for the most vendor-locked-in enterprisey hardware like storage, network, and support (where the multiplier can be infinity!) even if they pay no premium on the commodity compute.