This is why I don't use AWS or any "cloud" provider. That is not 100% true. I have 110 GB or so of personal data backed up on Glacier. The bill is 6 cents a month, and they obviously don't charge my card.
It may take longer to start, but owning all your servers is cheaper in the long run.
At the very least, don't lock yourself into one provider. Spread out any services you use.
More than one company has screwed itself over permanently by tying itself to a single service. At the end of the day, it is the extremely poor decision to follow the trend of locking oneself into a single company that dooms it.
You would think people would have learned the lesson to avoid lock-in by now. It is absolutely Darwinian at this point.
He is deflecting the obligations that having a project in the kernel mainline puts on him.
Linus' reaction is very appropriate because Kent is breaking the mainline and wrecking the kernel development cycle. It is more than appropriate to pull bcachefs out of the mainline.