[cmckn]

I’m not aware of a cloud provider that is contractually allowed to do such a thing (except maybe alibaba by way of the CCP). Dying companies get purchased and have their assets pilfered every day, the same thing would happen with cloud assets.

[bpicolo]

If the dead company stops paying the bills, Amazon can definitely delete that.

[cmckn]

Of course, I meant the idea of auctioning it off or otherwise accessing the customer’s data.

When I worked in Azure, I accidentally created some internal resources in a personal account. I didn’t have the ability to delete them after I left; the only way to do so was to cancel the credit card and let the grace period expire.