In this case, both AWS and Cloudflare had high-profile outages within the past few months. So a bunch of people tried to check their Twitter, got an error, and said "huh, I wonder if AWS is down again". Or during yesterday's Verizon outage, DownDetector also showed spikes on AT&T and T-Mobile, presumably from people who forgot what cellular provider they had, were roaming, or maybe were trying to call someone on another network.

It also doesn't help that they normalize the scale of their graphs on the front page. If you click them, you can see that 75k people googled "is X down", while only 200 people googled "is AWS down".

The X doomer posters have the same energy as Facebook doomer posters 15 years ago. I remember watching ycombinator videos talk about how, back in the day, entrepreneurs wanted to create facebook clones because "everybody hates facebook", and the X hate has the same energy in my opinion. There are still too many things like investing or journalism where you just need an X if you want to stay relevant.