Amazon says AWS outage was user error, not AI-driven
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Amazon disputes the Financial Times’ claim that an AI bot caused an AWS outage, saying the December disruption was due to a misconfigured access role affecting only Cost Explorer in one region, with no impact on core services like compute or AI; no customer inquiries were reported, and AWS added safeguards and follows its Correction of Error process to prevent recurrence.
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