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Who is talking about a 'website'? The Fastly CDN is their main product no?

I hope you're not suggesting these companies Shopify, Pinterest, Etsy, Paypal, Stripe, Coinbase etc didn't lose any revenue then? I would argue this is now collectively in the billions.

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None of those lost billions just because they were not available for an hour. (and if anybody did, really bad risk management on their part)

So you're saying companies losing huge ad budgets for an hour across all these websites, traders not being able to place trades, withdraw funds or close their positions from their trading accounts and consumers not being able to purchase anything from 1 million+ Shopify shops worldwide does not amount to billions lost?

Please stop this naive outlook.

Your original statement was that “lots of people lost billions” which seems patently absurd taken literally.

Now you’ve scaled it down to a collective loss of income across all companies impacted in the billions, which is at least plausible, but you can hardly blame people for treating your original statement less than seriously.

billions lost either way regardless of how you interpret it, and I expect Fastly to have a good reason as to why these popular clients and websites should continue paying for this CDN service.

I look forward to this extremely detailed post mortem from them.