[thedougd]

They would simply charge for the privilege. An EC2 'always on' or whatever option that enabled your instance to live migrate between availability zones would be a nice and expensive option.

[systemvoltage]

Definitely. Then I wonder why we need the cloud :) if not for services (not EC2). Lot of mid-sized companies are re-evaluating: https://www.economist.com/business/2021/07/03/do-the-costs-o...