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Which one of the 2 had a bigger revenue impact on Amazon? 1. That fine mention in this article 2. The outage that happened in AWS US-East-1 region earlier this
by john37386 5y ago
Which one of the 2 had a bigger revenue impact on Amazon?
1. That fine mention in this article
2. The outage that happened in AWS US-East-1 region earlier this week
- aigo 5y agoRevenue? The fine. Reputation? The outage. Companies who host on AWS don't care that the retail arm abuses its market position, they care about reliability.
- orf 5y agoThe fine, certainly
- Hamuko 5y agoIf us-east-1 going down for about 24 hours costs Amazon $1.3+ billion, wouldn't that make the yearly revenue of that region something like $475 billion? I think that's like AWS and Amazon yearly revenues put together.
- andruby 5y agothe cost of downtime can be a lot higher than the revenue for the same time in "uptime". some SLA's include extra compensation. there is reputation damage, ie lost future sales. perhaps also extra costs were made to resolve things.
- Hamuko 5y agoI still have my doubts about 24 hours of reduced performance on us-east-1 being so costly that it's equivalent to 1% of yearly Amazon revenue. I know that we run some services on us-east-1 and they never completely stopped working during the downtime, so it wasn't a complete region failure.
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago>there is reputation damage, ie lost future sales. hard to estimate those though.