[dang]

I took a look at the flags on these stories and am pretty sure they're from users who are tired of "X is down" submissions, which tend to get posted a lot and often to be a little on the trivial side.

However, since several HN users are expressing that this issue is genuinely affecting them, I've turned off flags on the OP about this and merged the comments here.

[tyingq]

The "across all regions" part makes this one different for me, and interesting even though I'm not a customer of their block storage. I'm curious about the sequence of events, or design choices, that would cause that.