Hacker News Reader

This has to be costing Amazon a fortune at the moment

Better today than Monday.

Using numbers from 2013, Amazon makes $2000 per second, down for 30 minutes = 3.6M

Edited: per hour to per second

Per hour? Do you mean per second?

Good catch, you're correct it's per second not per hour.

That's only true if people bounced of a broken homepage completely cancel their purchase, instead of waiting 10 minutes.

Most stores close overnight. They wouldn't double revenue if they opened overnight.