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It looks like something much larger is going on. If you look at the front page of https://downdetector.com/ you'll see most major sites/backbones are having issues (Verizon/ATT/Sprint/CenturyLink/TMobile/Comcast/Level3/etc).

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That site relies on user reports.

I strongly suspect users are reporting "my Internet is having troubles" because their FB, Messenger, etc. isn't working right.

For example, in the comments of the T-Mobile outage page, there's stuff like "Haven't been able to upload anything to social media all day" and "Cannot send pictures through whatsapp and fb messenger".

Yeah in Turkey people thought government is slowing down/blocking the whole internet

To be fair, the priors lean into that rather than Facebook and Whatsapp having troubles.

I believe that too but some of the services seem unrelated (like Flickr and Capital One).

Now, another interpretation is that the reports are simply false...

That's a fair point, but those folks probably aren't reporting AWS problems, and it's showing a spike too.

AWS is reporting an EC2 outage ("increased API error rates and launch failures in the US-WEST-2 Region") in Oregon currently.

That's true, but it is a good indicator. Here's a better map from Akamai: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re...

Also, check out the "Attacks" tab. That one really lights up. Like seriously lights up. Something is going on... all over. US, China, Russia, EU...

The attacks tab says the current count is "100% Below normal". It does not support what you think it supports.

It "lights up" because there are always attacks happening.

Look at the scale. The blue area is 100% below normal. The red are way above normal.

That doesn't make any sense, given that the "traffic" tab's scale says "7% above normal".

The red are the areas with the most attacks, and as you'd expect, they correspond to large population centers. (It's also not very granular, and appears to largely correspond to "where does Akamai have a datacenter".)

It’s a poorly designed graphic that’s hard to get any real info from.

https://xkcd.com/1138/

That chart is a marketing tool, nothing more.

Yes, I had that exact problem yesterday. I couldnt upload pictures/videos/gifs on whatsapp and instagram.

I thought maybe my ISP blocked a port which these services maybe transferring their multimedia on.