Ask HN: How many $$$ per second does the US economy lose when EC2 goes down?

[robert_mygengo]

Just wondering :)

Anyone got a back-of-the-envelope calculation they want to share?

[latch]

If I had to guess, I'd say that's it amounts to a rounding error relative to the "US economy"

[pbreit]

I 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.

[xuki]

It's probably up due to the fact that reddit is down too ;)