The price is the same though, regardless of what I'm getting, and I wouldn't care, except in my non-prod environments everything runs fine on some class of proc

The price is the same though, regardless of what I'm getting, and I wouldn't care, except in my non-prod environments everything runs fine on some class of processor, while on my prod environment things didn't run fine and my cluster was maxed out because it was running on some old processor. I know that notionally it can and will run on different hardware in different environments, but if I can run a certain workload (idling at 10% in one environment), I expect to be able to do the same in another environment.