Moving data into Amazon's cloud is easy—getting it out, not so much

From the title I was expecting something nefarious on Amazon's part, which is at odds with the content of the article.

The core of which seems to be that Amazon has higher write speeds compared to other cloud storage providers, so all else being equal it takes longer to move information out of their system than into it because the other providers can't handle the speed.

Total linkbait title. There's nothing wrong with getting the data out of Amazon, it's writing it to other cloud providers that's the problem. If you just want to access the data or move it to your own datacenter presumably you will only be limited by your own bandwidth. There's no artificial limitations being imposed by Amazon here...