It seems like AWS is just focusing on increasing it's vendor lock in and it makes sense not just from the AWS point of view but if you're a developer at an enterprise company that has authorised AWS the more databases the clone, poorly or badly the more choice you have without having to get authorisation and the cost doesn't matter to the developer since the enterprise company is paying for it.
I suspect there are many enterprises that are already so locked into AWS that it would take them a decade to move to a different provider.
I suspect there are many enterprises that are already so locked into AWS that it would take them a decade to move to a different provider.