What if they seize S3?

I think Amazon will have a better shot at either avoiding that or preventing outages from that.

Too bad you have to be a multi-billion-dollar corporation to be free from heavy-handed enforcement actions.

Actually a canny data-center operator might be able to offer a limited free service to something like a hospital, allowing them to argue that a wholesale shutdown might threaten lives. Done just right, the hospital gets a free service and the data-center gets protection.

Although the FBI have shown themselves to be quite capable of shutting down 911 service, which might threaten lives.

you won't really care, since your original servers will still be up