Cost of running a website like that is essentially everything but the actual infrastructure of keeping the HTML and data going across the wire. Since Amazon als

Cost of running a website like that is essentially everything but the actual infrastructure of keeping the HTML and data going across the wire. Since Amazon also runs AWS, they can essentially run the website for free (as they surely don't pay for traffic like the normal cloud-pleebs do). Stop updating the website but still leaving it online would have cost them a minimal amount of money but left them with infinitive amount of goodwill in the community compared to what they ended up doing.