the best part is Downdetector is inaccurate as hell - if AWS is genuinely down, folks get curious and search other providers, causing Downdetector to mark them as down too

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tjoff 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Just searching surely does not mark them as down?

	▲	jedberg an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's exactly how it works. The website is just a counter of how many people landed on the page searching for "is $X down"
	▲	Xenoamorphous 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It does.