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Re:Amazon is down ... implications for AWS? by breck on Friday June 06, 2008 @03:53PM (#211134)
$14.8 billion in revenue ~= $28,000 per minute

So an hour of downtime costs ~ $1.69 million

Very rough estimates, but could be close.

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Re:Amazon is down ... implications for AWS? by maximilian on Saturday June 07, 2008 @01:31AM (#211417)
Assuming you average their revenue. But i'll betcha they make a lot of their money in spikes, so going down on a random friday evening, although costly, isn't as costly as 1.69 million. Also, what percentage of people who wanna buy something at the moment its down, won't come back later?
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