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notdonspaulding
on Jan 31, 2013
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Amazon's homepage was down
What's the guess as to how much revenue Amazon loses for every second of downtime?
runarb
on Jan 31, 2013
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Not all abandon sales are a loss for Amazon. Many customers will simply just com back and buy another day because they don't know about the competition.
dm8
on Jan 31, 2013
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Given their annual revenues of $60B and they were down for ~ 20-25 minutes. So they must have lost ~$3M in revenues during entire downtime.
P.S. Wild guess. No idea about how much sale do they make during peak hours.
setheron
on Jan 31, 2013
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I was told varying different numbers at the time I joined. I'd be curious to know as well.
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