| It is pretty hard to move out of any cloud . If your workload is just Compute or stateless with commodity or standardized API interfaces you could maybe do a move maybe. Even for those it is fraught with problems and takes a lot of time , time you are not developing features and adding product value. If you are using S3 or any sort of proprietary stack on AWS to the cost to migrate (retrieval + b/w or rewrite your app ) is just too prohibitive . All cloud providers know this and plan that in their models , reason why they give out generous free tier or give a ton of money in startup programs or other hooks to get you to start . —— AWS does not just have an all or nothing suspension policy . From personal experience I know they do suspend your access to a single service at even single region level - our account still has SES blocked in one region because early on we handled bounces poorly and this was at least 8 years ago they even sent few warnings too, so they have pretty robust framework to handle abuse. Back then I couldn’t get it unblocked with tickets and escalations , I am sure we spending 15/20k a year then so not super small either . These days we spend more like 250k a year on AWS and I still don’t get a proper account manager. I could perhaps get it unblocked now if I really wanted, not just worth the hassle to jump the hoops, one of the reasons why Azure is our primary cloud partner and we spend most of our money on despite subpar tech compared to AwS (GCP is 10x worse on this) . I cannot comment on specific controls that is put on lightsail never used the service but they definitely do have a framework to suspend for every service they offer. Just given the generous free tier, there is huge industry of using stolen credit cards to run scams or send spam on AWS which they constantly have to fight against. |