[ethbro]

Here's the reason no one thinks about those things: no one makes their numbers public.

Or at least I've never stumbled across a blog post with anything like a line item cost range for everything that goes into DC or cloud networking.

And in the absence of transparency, yeah, people are going to assume they're getting screwed.

(I understand why this is. The networking free market seems to do a decent job at fulfilling needs, but it turns all those things into secret sauce that shouldn't be shared.)