To put it another way, it is an implicit cost of using AWS: You have to have contingency plans to cope with discontinued services, and you need to be able to re

To put it another way, it is an implicit cost of using AWS: You have to have contingency plans to cope with discontinued services, and you need to be able to realistically execute those plans. I think it is just another reason that AWS isn't as good a deal as it might initially appear to be for small businesses. (Larger organizations may have a better chance of amortizing these costs over many projects.)