Database Downtime Cost Calculator
See exactly how much a database outage costs your business โ per minute, per hour, per day. Based on real industry data.
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$10,000,000
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$120,000
60 minutes
Formula: (Revenue per minute + Employee cost per minute) ร Industry multiplier ร Duration
Revenue per minute = Annual Revenue รท 525,600
Employee cost per minute = (Employees ร Avg Salary ร 1.3 burden) รท 525,600
Revenue per minute = Annual Revenue รท 525,600
Employee cost per minute = (Employees ร Avg Salary ร 1.3 burden) รท 525,600
Estimated Downtime Cost
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๐ Famous Outage Benchmarks
Real-world costs per minute of downtime from major incidents.
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Amazon (AWS)
~$220,000 / minute
2023 outage estimate
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Meta (Facebook)
~$163,000 / minute
2021 outage estimate
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Delta Airlines
~$150,000 / minute
2016 outage estimate
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British Airways
~$112,000 / minute
2017 outage estimate
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Costco
~$47,000 / minute
2024 outage estimate
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Google
~$23,000 / minute
2020 outage estimate
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