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Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by stfp on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @04:35PM (#29478519)
> tens of million dollars of profit are simply vanishing

vanishing or delayed six hours? I mean

Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by naikrovek on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @05:07PM (#29478829)
money people think of money very weirdly. when they predict they will get more than they actually get, they call it "loss" for some reason, and when they predict they will get less than they actually get, it's called ... well I don't know what that's called but everyone gets bonuses.
Re:AWS us-east-1 outage by lp0_on_fire on Tuesday December 07, 2021 @05:13PM (#29478887)
6 hours of downtime often means 6 hours of paying employees to stand around which adds up rather quickly.