🟡Vibin News™ | October 20, 2025, | AWS Outage Could Cost Major Platforms Millions Per Hour, Estimates Show

🖥️ When Amazon Web Services (AWS) goes down, the ripple effects hit fast, and hard.

According to analytics firm Tenscope, several major tech companies face steep hourly revenue losses during AWS outages. Using publicly available annual revenue data divided by 8,760 (the number of hours in a year), Tenscope estimated the following potential losses:

• Amazon: $72.8 million/hour

• Snapchat: $611,986/hour

• Zoom: $532,580/hour

• Roblox: $411,187/hour

• Fortnite: $399,543/hour

• Canva: $342,466/hour

• Slack: $194,064/hour

• Reddit: $148,402/hour

These figures reflect estimated revenue disruptions, not confirmed losses, and assume full-service interruption. In reality, impact varies based on redundancy, outage scope, and user behavior.

🔍 Vibin Take: Cloud outages aren’t just technical hiccups, they’re economic shockwaves. As platforms grow more dependent on centralized infrastructure, resilience planning becomes a bottom-line issue.