Yup. AWS never raises prices, assuming one ignores that one time they added the per-transaction fee to S3 shortly after launch, but I think everyone thought was a rather understandable change.

Conventional wisdom is that AWS is more reliable to trust to build on top of. My interactions buying cloud services is that the AWS account managers are more trustworthy and reliable (although they spend less time building personal rapport and small talk). And this kind of thing just confirms that.