> do you really think there are masses of people who can’t tell the difference between a single sign on service being down and individual sites being down and reporting it to downdetector?

Yes, absolutely. 100%.

> Even if there were doesn’t the outage graph give you exactly the information your asking be curated?

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

Was there an AWS outage this morning? The graph sure looks like it, but there wasn't.