Down detector is much much higher when there is a real problem.

There might be something, but wouldn’t be widespread.

Most of the reports on the downdetector heatmap are coming from the NYC area, that's probably more likely to be a network issue (or even, if you can imagine it, DNS) than a real AWS failure since it's well into business hours on the West Coast.

https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/map/