I'll concede that "it" was ambiguous. Though if you take the most literal version of what I said, it would be they'd shut down S3, which clearly isn't true.
We can continue to debate whether or not I (who worked on that team and generally understands what goes into building scaled cloud services, having built several myself) understand how a cloud provider responds to customers using your service in a way you clearly didn't intend, or we can move on with our day.