Comments on: Amazon.com Downtime Cost http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2008/06/06/amazoncom-downtime-cost/ The personal web site of Brendon J. Wilson, a software developer, technologist, and entrepreneur living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:11:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Just Uptime » Blog Archive » Amazon Down.. Again! http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2008/06/06/amazoncom-downtime-cost/comment-page-1/#comment-178302 Just Uptime » Blog Archive » Amazon Down.. Again! Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:29:39 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/?p=404#comment-178302 [...] became bored and frustrated so began Googling until I came across an interesting article that estimated Amazon’s losses at around $33.96 per second during downtime -that’s an [...] [...] became bored and frustrated so began Googling until I came across an interesting article that estimated Amazon’s losses at around $33.96 per second during downtime -that’s an [...]

]]> By: Brendon J. Wilson http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2008/06/06/amazoncom-downtime-cost/comment-page-1/#comment-174656 Brendon J. Wilson Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:14:43 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/?p=404#comment-174656 Yeah, true enough. While summer is prime book-reading time, most consumer businesses make-or-break their numbers in Q4 around Christmas. Therefore this estimate is naive in that it is based on the assumption that Amazon.com purchases occur evenly over the year. Even still, there can be no doubt that this downtime is costing Amazon some serious dollars. One also has to wonder what, if any, downstream ramifications it has on their supply chain. Yeah, true enough. While summer is prime book-reading time, most consumer businesses make-or-break their numbers in Q4 around Christmas. Therefore this estimate is naive in that it is based on the assumption that Amazon.com purchases occur evenly over the year.

Even still, there can be no doubt that this downtime is costing Amazon some serious dollars. One also has to wonder what, if any, downstream ramifications it has on their supply chain.

]]> By: jesse http://www.brendonwilson.com/blog/2008/06/06/amazoncom-downtime-cost/comment-page-1/#comment-174645 jesse Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:18:27 +0000 http://www.brendonwilson.com/?p=404#comment-174645 People will just delay their purchase so you need to derate the $6.02. Also who buys books in June? People will just delay their purchase so you need to derate the $6.02. Also who buys books in June?

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