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Short Outages Lead to Huge Losses for Google and Amazon

Amazon.com may have been down in North America for as long as 45 minutes this week. 
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Amazon.com may have been down in North America for as long as 45 minutes this week. That may not seem like a lot of time, but the company is estimated to have lost $120,000 per minute in lost revenue. Google also lost an estimated $545,000 in ad revenue in five minutes.


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