The Diatribe * net » network http://www.thediatribe.net One giant collaborative diatribe Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:44:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 $31,000 per minute http://www.thediatribe.net/2008/06/06/31000-per-minute/ http://www.thediatribe.net/2008/06/06/31000-per-minute/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:45:30 +0000 Brandon http://www.thediatribe.net/?p=769

According to CNet, for every minute that Amazon is down globally — it would cost them approximately $31,000 in sales. This is based off their yearly revenue numbers from last year.

That being said, Amazon has been down in the US since 10:30 am PST (about 1 hour and 12 minutes at the time of this posting). Assuming that this was a global outage, this would cost Amazon about $2.2MM already.

Considering it’s only the US, let’s just cut that number in half.. even so.

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