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13-HOUR AWS OUTAGE REPORTEDLY CAUSED BY AMAZON'S OWN AI TOOLS

engadget.com4 min read

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Amazon's own AI coding tool, Kiro, reportedly caused a 13-hour AWS outage in December after it autonomously decided to delete and recreate an environment. Amazon is calling it a user error due to misconfigured access controls, and says the same thing could've happened with any tool. However, multiple AWS employees told the Financial Times it was at least the second time Kiro had caused a disruption recently.