Always add $49/month (the basic support plan) if you want to compare AWS with DO/Linode, don't just look at the $5/month instance charge.
1-5 hour turn around times on initial responses and I've gotten them to enable things like the recovery partition due to an instance running out of disk space.
Sometimes it takes a few responses to get a resolution but at that price point I can't really complain because they've even helped resolve issues that were my fault.