[2close4comfort]

So AWS finally lost enough money to the Russian blockade that they caved. Sad.

[nasredin]

Russian economy is very very small.

Whatever Amazon's reason is it's not that they lost some Russian banks for a week.

[angry_octet]

The same technique is being used to prevent censorship in a host of countries, like UAE, that have giant piles of cash and influence, and where blocking AWS/Google would have unacceptable consequences. No one gives a damn about a few Russians.