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john37386 | 4 years 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

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aigo|4 years ago

Revenue? 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|4 years ago

The fine, certainly

Hamuko|4 years 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|4 years ago

the 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.