AWS is fine: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

My guess is whatever system downdetector uses to "detect downtime" relies on either GCP or Cloudflare (also having issues at the moment: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/)

So’s Azure? https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure/

This is where we get to learn about the one common system all of our “distributed cloud” systems rely on, isn’t it?

My gut says all clouds spike when one goes down from people misreporting issues.

But I suppose there's always "something something BGP" but that feels less likely.

Aren't some of these sites partially based on hits (because of the assumption that if enough people are suddenly googling "Is youtube down", then youtube must be having some sort of issue.

I could see a big outage like this causing people to google "Is AWS down?"

Almost everything on the downdetector home page is listed as having downtime...

At this point I don’t know if I must assume people are trolling or the entire internet is down.

wtf is going on

It's the entire internet. Check oracle cloud, etc etc. The ENTIRE INTERNET.

Quick! Pirate as much music as possible before it goes for good! ;)

Hacker News is fine.

oracle and azure report no issues on their statuspages, likely just down detector getting hammered.

neither did google cloud for the first 55 minutes of their outage.