<story><title>Amazon was Down</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austenallred</author><text>At an estimated loss of $31,000 per minute &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9962010-7.html?tag=nefd.top&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9962010-7.html?tag=nefd.to...&lt;/a&gt; I&apos;m blown away that I see Amazon goes down so often. That certainly, in my mind, doesn&apos;t bode well for the brand of AWS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>brokentone</author><text>I can&apos;t imagine that&apos;s a real loss, likely only deferred sales. What are you going to do if you can&apos;t buy your thing at Amazon? Drive somewhere? I think you&apos;ll try again later.&lt;p&gt;Dividing income for time doesn&apos;t necessarily give you loss, especially this seems to have no weighting for time of day and season. I doubt an outage right now has anywhere near the same effect it would have during lunch break two weeks before Christmas.</text></comment>
<story><title>Amazon was Down</title><url>http://www.amazon.com/index.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>austenallred</author><text>At an estimated loss of $31,000 per minute &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9962010-7.html?tag=nefd.top&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9962010-7.html?tag=nefd.to...&lt;/a&gt; I&apos;m blown away that I see Amazon goes down so often. That certainly, in my mind, doesn&apos;t bode well for the brand of AWS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>kamkazemoose</author><text>Does Amazon really go down that often? Is there any data how often/ for how long Amazon does go down?  I wonder how it compares to other sites that get the same amount of traffic.</text></comment>