When I was at AWS, I watched SAs get promoted for saving customers money all the time.
AWS wants happy customers to stick around for a long time, not one month of goosed income
AWS wants happy customers to stick around for a long time, not one month of goosed income
If you still decided to move away, and want to take data with you, yeah... there is a cost. Heck there is a cost to delete the data you have with them (like S3 content).
Its a good way to do business.