[lonelappde]

Why not just migrate the resources?

Spin up new instances, load data from snapshots, get back to work.

[tly_alex]

Migration on resources taking live traffic is not an easy thing. Before migrating the traffic over to a different end-point, the time and the engineering work to make sure the new endpoints works is money and cost. Also there could be statefull data in the original account and to do a live migration of data with new data coming in at X tps is absolutely hard work.

[tcgv]

Probably because paying 5 figures to the account owner was cheaper, faster and safer than recreating the production env from scratch