top | item 29495853 (no title) 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 discuss order hn newest 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. load replies (2)
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.
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. load replies (2)
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. load replies (2)
aigo|4 years ago
Companies who host on AWS don't care that the retail arm abuses its market position, they care about reliability.
orf|4 years ago
Hamuko|4 years ago
andruby|4 years ago
some SLA's include extra compensation. there is reputation damage, ie lost future sales. perhaps also extra costs were made to resolve things.