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August 20, 2013

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.

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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