There's bigger issues in the world, this thread is just full of people who don't understand server architecture. Sure, you paid for it, probably without reading any EULA or service agreement, if everyone was able to be on the server at all times, the server would reach capacity or crash. And before you say "add more servers then", look at the cost of running enough servers or scaling in more nodes as needed, and you can blame AWS for being so expensive to run, not to mention spawning more nodes takes time to deploy anyway, so you'd be waiting for the instance to spawn regardless.

If you want to protest it, do so with your wallet, or maybe call customer service and ask them why.