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If 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
by Hamuko 5y ago
If 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.