> horror stories like “I got DDOSed and AWS shutdown all my EC2s and destroyed the data I accidentally wrote to ephemeral storage.”

I mean, S3 also incurs ongoing charges, so if you're going to stop accruing charges you'd also be deleting your data that wasn't on ephemeral storage...

And potentially deleting all of your DNS zones (and recreating them will likely give you different nameservers so you'll need to wait for the registrar to update them once you're back)...

And...