[bombcar]

Because now all the customers who want to leave, can do so, and the customers you could get from other platforms can't cheaply leave, yet.

[amluto]

Leaving isn’t particularly expensive regardless: compare egress prices to non-Glacier S3 prices. Leaving doesn’t cost more than a couple months of staying.

What is expensive is leaving in part. You can’t offload part of your data pipelines to, say, Digital Ocean or a colo cost-effectively.