Comment by Illniyar

No new customers is not shutting down services you rely on. It's the exact opposite. It's making sure things you rely on continue to work until you are ok leaving it.

And SimpleDB has been deprecated for years. I don't know think there's a single service you could have picked to better highlight the point.

AWS does close services, from time to time, all companies do, but the services they choose and the way they do it instill confidence in customers. The way GCP does it instills fear