[mcintyre1994]

It's interesting that they report an AWS outage but there don't seem to be any issues there. Looks like their methodology is a bit too reliant on those speculative tweets from the first 5 minutes of all these sites going down. https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/

> So many websites are down, are AWS servers down or something?

> Amazon web services is down which is affecting a lot of company web sites and services. Not sure what is going on.

> Miss us? @aldotcom and a whole bunch of other folks have been knocked off the internet by what appears to be an AWS attack/system failure. We'll be back. ?

[mandelbrotwurst]

It’s just based on user reports, so this is people mischaracterizing it as an AWS outage.

[mcintyre1994]

Yep that's my point. I'm guessing that for a lot of sites they can verify if there's an outage pretty easily when they see a spike in reports, but for something like AWS unless they updated their status page (lol) or downdetector ran a bunch of stuff on there just to check with, I guess they don't have a good way to verify it.

[mandelbrotwurst]

Gotcha, yeah I guess I always just considered that out of scope for their service and that it’s just a report aggregator but I suppose you would expect it to be at least a little bit clever based on the “detector” name

[jacob019]

cloudfront was down too