If it does go to court, a goodwill payment might be interpreted as evidence of wrongdoing. In your case, the marginal cost to Amazon of providing AWS was negl

If it does go to court, a goodwill payment might be interpreted as evidence of wrongdoing. In your case, the marginal cost to Amazon of providing AWS was negligible, and Amazon has full rights to offer products they create as freebies, so such grants easily translate to goodwill. In this case, Amazon doesn't own all rights to the product, so it's a bit more murky. It would be as if Amazon was granting you freebies but were only resellers rather than providers of AWS, and didn't compensate the actual provider.