Photo via Images of Money
Photo via Images of Money

When you’re an online retail giant, every second that your website stays inaccessible means thousands of dollars out the virtual door.

For Amazon, that meant about $5 million in losses Monday afternoon when the Seattle company went down for about 40 minutes.

Amazon posted $15.7 billion in revenue last quarter, which breaks down to about $120,000 per minute. Multiply that by the 40 minutes Amazon went down and you get around $4.8 million in lost dollars.

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