Just wondering :)
Anyone got a back-of-the-envelope calculation they want to share?
Ask HN: How many $$$ per second does the US economy lose when EC2 goes down?
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Re: Ask HN: How many $$$ per second does the US economy lose when EC2 goes down?
#2I don't have the answer but will point out that many estimations will mistakenly forget to acknowledge that a certain percentage of web activity, possibly a large percentage, simply waits for services to come back online.
Re: Ask HN: How many $$$ per second does the US economy lose when EC2 goes down?
#3If I had to guess, I'd say that's it amounts to a rounding error relative to the "US economy"
Re: Ask HN: How many $$$ per second does the US economy lose when EC2 goes down?
#4It's probably up due to the fact that reddit is down too ;)