Well yeah but then where do you tell your story about moving to AWS?

If it gets upvoted enough to hit the front page enough people must be interested in it - there's a hard low-end cap if I recall, must have at least x votes before it's even considered for front page

For popular services such as Linode it also makes sense as if you're ever thinking "Man I see this all the time on HN" it's probably a good call to avoid that provider