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I suspect it’s a hard limit to prevent disgruntled (former) admin blast radius.



If that was the concern then surely they could enable support to restore accounts during some grace period. The machinery for that already exists for people who completely close their AWS accounts down.

Maybe it was quicker to implement with a hard limit, or there is some internal service that can't easily handle large volumes of account removals. But if it was Amazon losing money from this limitation instead of the customer I imagine it would be fixed pretty quickly.


Given that the potential disgruntled admin already has access to nukes, this seems useless.




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