Sounds like you just identified a tranche of customers Akamai doesn’t care about. As everyone else in the comments is pointing out Akamai doesn’t want your $1000/mo. It’s a waste of their time. They want customers who are eager to talk private pricing plans and $1M commits. And I expect the linked infra/team will now be providing services that those $MM customers want.
They recently announced they were shutting down their cloud hosting and gave just 45 days notice to move sites.
Funny part was that the way they gave their customers notice was flawed and most customers didn’t receive any email from them.
I wish a sense of deflation was the only issue I’d had!
Ethical? Probably not.